2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Study on Fundation of Web Browser Fingerprinting
| Project/Area Number |
26330162
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Information security
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Meiji University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
|
| Keywords | Web / プライバシー / トラッキング |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Recently, JavaScript with HTML5 is becoming more popular in Web application design. As a side effect, this technology can also be used to collect Web client information such as Web browser families, OS, GPU, font lists or screen size. Web servers can now collect these kinds of information without Web viewer consent or malicious exploits. This kind of collection from Web servers is called Web browser fingerprinting, and is used for identifying or tracking Web viewers in commercial sites. We revealed how Web browser fingerprinting works.
|
| Free Research Field |
情報セキュリティ
|
