Google QUIC-ly left privacy behind in its quest for a speedier internet, boffins find
Promising protocol much easier to fingerprint than HTTPS Share Copy Googles QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) protocol, announced in 2013 as a way to make the web faster, waited seven years before being implemented in the ad giants Chrome browser. But it still arrived before privacy could get there. A trio of researchers from China have found that QUIC is more vulnerable to web fingerprinting than HTTPS, a shortcoming that could make it easier for an adversary to infer which website...
Yi Tang Pengwei Zhana Elsevier Computer Networks Internet Engineering Task Force China National Key Rd Program Guangzhou University
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