2019-shapira-flowpic

FlowPic: Encrypted Internet Traffic Classification is as Easy as Image Recognition

Abstract

Classifies encrypted traffic by encoding packet sizes and arrival times as images for a convolutional neural network. Evaluates traffic categories and application identification using labeled datasets, including VPN and Tor.

Team notes

Associated talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZm7y91v2co Expanded journal version: 2021-shapira-flowpic. Dataset classification results do not demonstrate deployment by a censor or evaluate resistance of REALITY or XTLS Vision.

Tags

censors
generic
techniques
traffic-shapeml-classifier
method
ml-evaluation