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most citedTracking Users across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

26 citations · 36 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2022★ 6 cited

Probing for Passwords -- Privacy Implications of SSIDs in Probe Requests

Johanna Ansohn McDougall, Christian Burkert, Daniel Demmler +3

Probe requests help mobile devices discover active Wi-Fi networks. They often contain a multitude of data that can be used to identify and track devices and thereby their users. Th…

cs.CR2022

PrivacyDates: A Framework for More Privacy-Preserving Timestamp Data Types

Christian Burkert, Jonathan Balack, Hannes Federrath

Case studies of application software data models indicate that timestamps are excessively used in connection with user activity. This contradicts the principle of data minimisation…

cs.CR2019★ 4 cited

PEEPLL: Privacy-Enhanced Event Pseudonymisation with Limited Linkability

Ephraim Zimmer, Christian Burkert, Tom Petersen +1

Pseudonymisation provides the means to reduce the privacy impact of monitoring, auditing, intrusion detection, and data collection in general on individual subjects. Its applicatio…

cs.NI2019

QUICker connection establishment with out-of-band validation tokens

Erik Sy, Christian Burkert, Tobias Mueller +2

QUIC is a secure transport protocol that improves the performance of HTTPS. An initial QUIC handshake that enforces a strict validation of the client's source address requires two…

cs.CR2019

Enhanced Performance and Privacy for TLS over TCP Fast Open

Erik Sy, Tobias Mueller, Christian Burkert +2

Small TCP flows make up the majority of web flows. For them, the TCP three-way handshake induces significant delay overhead. The TCP Fast Open (TFO) protocol can significantly decr…

cs.CR2018★ 26 cited

Tracking Users across the Web via TLS Session Resumption

Erik Sy, Christian Burkert, Hannes Federrath +1

User tracking on the Internet can come in various forms, e.g., via cookies or by fingerprinting web browsers. A technique that got less attention so far is user tracking based on T…