Cryptography, Volume 8, Issue 2 (June 2024) – 15 articles
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The use of encryption on data packets provides data privacy protection against direct inspection. However, it is still possible for an attacker to successfully employ side-channel attacks instead, including the use of packet size distribution, or inter-packet arrival times, i.e., examining traffic characteristics to attack user privacy, even for encrypted traffic. We demonstrate that multipath transmission can prevent analysis through known and unknown side-channels, avoiding the overheads associated with other defences. We present a thorough analysis to demonstrate that the use of four or more paths disrupts bigram (two-sequence) patterns that can be used in Hidden Markov Models (HMMs), which are commonly used for side-channel attacks on encrypted traffic. View this paper
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