Re: Font Based Fingerprinting Papers

Thanks for the links Pete.  Here’s another paper on fingerprinting more generally that has some interesting stats on font fingerprinting.

Alejandro Gómez-Boix, Pierre Laperdrix, and Benoit Baudry’s "Hiding in the Crowd: an Analysis of the E￿ectiveness of Browser Fingerprinting at Large Scale” — https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~maffeis/331/EffectivenessOfFingerprinting.pdf <https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~maffeis/331/EffectivenessOfFingerprinting.pdf>.

J


> On Apr 19, 2019, at 9:06 AM, Pete Snyder <psnyder@brave.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As promised, here are some papers describing the accuracy and (in two cases) frequency of using font enumeration to finger print browsers.
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> I’ll try to come up with a first, goof-attempt at a proposed change well in advance of our next call too.
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> Laperdrix, Pierre, Walter Rudametkin, and Benoit Baudry. "Beauty and the beast: Diverting modern web browsers to build unique browser fingerprints." 2016 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). IEEE, 2016.
> https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01285470/document
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> Nikiforakis, Nick, et al. "Cookieless monster: Exploring the ecosystem of web-based device fingerprinting." 2013 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy. IEEE, 2013.
> https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/6547086/6547088/06547132.pdf
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> Eckersley, Peter. "How unique is your web browser?." International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010.
> https://panopticlick.eff.org/static/browser-uniqueness.pdf
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> Pete Snyder
> {pes,psnyder}@brave.com
> Brave Software
> Privacy Researcher
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