Research prospects of user information detection from encrypted traffic of mobile devices

Tengfei ZHANG; Shunzheng YU

doi:10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2021040

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Research prospects of user information detection from encrypted traffic of mobile devices

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- Research prospects of user information detection from encrypted traffic of mobile devices
- Journal on Communications Vol. 42, Issue 2, Pages: 154-167(2021)
- 作者机构：
  
  中山大学计算机学院，广东广州 510006
- 作者简介：
- 基金信息：
  
  The National Natural Science Foundation of China(U1636118);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61972431);The High Technology Research and Development Program of Guangdong(2017B030306015);Special Project on the Applied Technology Research and Development of Guangdong(2017B010125003)
- DOI：10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2021040
  CLC： TN92
- Online First：2021-02，
  
  Published：25 February 2021
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Tengfei ZHANG, Shunzheng YU. Research prospects of user information detection from encrypted traffic of mobile devices[J]. Journal on Communications, 2021, 42(2): 154-167.
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Tengfei ZHANG, Shunzheng YU. Research prospects of user information detection from encrypted traffic of mobile devices[J]. Journal on Communications, 2021, 42(2): 154-167. DOI： 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2021040.

摘要

移动设备加密流量分析可以用主动或被动的方式获取多种类型的用户信息，为网络安全管理和用户隐私保护提供保障。重点分析、归纳了用户信息探测所涉及的数据采集、特征选择、模型与方法以及评价体系的基本原理和关键方法。总结了现有方案中存在的问题，以及未来研究方向和面临的挑战。

Abstract

Encrypted traffic analysis of mobile devices can obtain multiple types of user information in an active or passive way

which provides protection for network security management and user privacy protection.The basic principles and key methods of data collection

feature selection

models and methods

and evaluation systems involved in these user information detection were analyzed and summarized.The problems in the existing projects were summarized

as well as the future research directions and challenges.

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