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 Google's 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 giant's 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 websites an individual is visiting by scrutinizing network traffic. Boffins Pengwei Zhan and Liming Wang ...
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