How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's {DNS} Censorship

NP Hoang, AA Niaki, J Dalek, J Knockel, P Lin… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
The DNS filtering apparatus of China's Great Firewall (GFW) has evolved considerably over
the past two decades. However, most prior studies of China's DNS filtering were performed …

Extensible machine learning for encrypted network traffic application labeling via uncertainty quantification

S Jorgensen, J Holodnak, J Dempsey… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the increasing prevalence of encrypted network traffic, cybersecurity analysts have
been turning to machine learning (ML) techniques to elucidate the traffic on their networks …

Measuring and evading turkmenistan's internet censorship: A case study in large-scale measurements of a low-penetration country

S Nourin, V Tran, X Jiang, K Bock, N Feamster… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Since 2006, Turkmenistan has been listed as one of the few Internet enemies by Reporters
without Borders due to its extensively censored Internet and strictly regulated information …

{DeResistor}: Toward {Detection-Resistant} Probing for Evasion of Internet Censorship

A Amich, B Eshete, V Yegneswaran… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
The arms race between Internet freedom advocates and censors has catalyzed the
emergence of sophisticated blocking techniques and directed significant research emphasis …

[HTML][HTML] Web browsing privacy in the deep learning era: Beyond VPNs and encryption

D Perdices, JEL de Vergara, I González, L de Pedro - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Web browsing privacy is a matter of paramount importance for the Internet users. While they
try to protect themselves from being monitored by getting advantage of encryption or VPNs …

Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting defenses for the masses

S Siby, L Barman, C Wood… - Proceedings …, 2023 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
Website fingerprinting (WF) is a well-known threat to users' web privacy. New Internet
standards, such as QUIC, include padding to support defenses against WF. Previous work …

FingerprinTV: Fingerprinting Smart TV Apps

J Varmarken, J Al Aaraj, R Trimananda… - Proceedings on Privacy …, 2022 - par.nsf.gov
This paper proposes FingerprinTV, a fully automated methodology for extracting fingerprints
from the network traffic of smart TV apps and assessing their performance. FingerprinTV (1) …

Measuring the accessibility of domain name encryption and its impact on internet filtering

NP Hoang, M Polychronakis, P Gill - International Conference on Passive …, 2022 - Springer
Most online communications rely on DNS to map domain names to their hosting IP address
(es). Previous work has shown that DNS-based network interference is widespread due to …

Augmenting rule-based dns censorship detection at scale with machine learning

J Brown, X Jiang, V Tran, AN Bhagoji… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of global censorship has led to the development of a plethora of
measurement platforms to monitor and expose it. Censorship of the domain name system …

ProFi: Scalable and efficient website fingerprinting

P Krämer, B Baier, N Landerer… - … on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Website Fingerprinting (WFP) attacks infer the websites or webpages a user is visiting from
encrypted traffic. To date, it remains uncertain if WFP can attack many users from a central …