Chameleon: Robust Defense Against Tor Website Fingerprinting via Many-to-Many Traffic Morphing

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks continue to pose a significant risk to user privacy by inferring browsing activities from encrypted Tor traffic. Current defense mechanisms often create 'learnable web trace mapping features' that are vulnerable to advanced attacks, including defense-aware autoencoder (DAAE)-based methods. A new defense, Chameleon, is proposed, utilizing many-to-many randomized traffic morphing to enhance robustness against these sophisticated WF attacks.

This research addresses a critical vulnerability in privacy-enhancing technologies, specifically the Tor network, which has broad implications for secure communication and data protection. Effective defenses against website fingerprinting are essential for maintaining user anonymity and trust in online services, impacting national security, corporate intelligence, and individual privacy rights.

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks can infer user browsing activities from encrypted Tor traffic.

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