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Informally, a system leaks information if it reveals private information through some non-traditional and unanticipated channel. For example, our work on remote device fingerprinting shows that timing information about a stream of TCP packets can leak private information about the packets' originating physical device. Our broader research involves systematically analyzing systems for new information leakage channels and, for each new information leakage channels, developing appropriate protection mechanism.

Example Paper

• Remote Physical Device Fingerprinting [PDF]
  Tadayoshi Kohno, Andre Broido, and K.C. Claffy
  IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May, 2005 [Conference version, Award paper]
  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Apr-Jun, 2005 [Journal version]

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