Tools for active remote operating system fingerprinting generate many packets and are easily detected by host and network defensive devices such as IDS/NIDS. Since each additional packet increases the probability of detection, it is advantageous to minimize the number of probe packets. We make use of an informationtheoretic measure of test quality to evaluate fingerprinting probes and use this ...

In recent years, WiFi fingerprint-based localization has received much attention due to its deployment practicability. In this work, we investigate the impact of different indoor environmental factors on the performance of WiFi-fingerprinting. We find that, WiFi-fingerprinting highly depends on the deployed indoor environment. In an open space, it is quite challenging to find spatially varying ...

The early history of "DNA fingerprinting" in the UK might have been different were it not for the accounts of two dramatic courtroom trials, made by the participants and the media, in the mid-1980s. But these reports, which misrepresented the importance DNA evidence had in the trials, left a strong impression on the British public and on judges on both sides of the Atlantic. These trials, widel...

This paper proposes a novel, non-linear collusion attack on digital fingerprinting systems. The attack is proposed for fingerprinting systems with finite alphabet but can be extended to continuous alphabet. We analyze the error probability of the attack for some classes of proposed random and deterministic schemes and obtain a bound on the number of colluders necessary to correctly estimate the...

Genetic analysis was conducted in chicken belonging to lines divergently selected for high or low frequency of skeletal defects (line H and L, respectively). The analysis was based on the DNA fingerprinting technique, using enzyme HinfI and Jeffrey’s 33.6 probe. Principal aims were: 1) to determine the effects of selection on the genetic variation within and between lines, and 2) to search for ...

Only combining encryption with fingerprinting together can provide comprehensive content security protection for visual media. Joint fingerprinting and decryption (JFD) framework solves encryption and fingerprinting simultaneously and has high efficiency, but several problems still remain to be tackled in JFD, including poor encryption security, severe fingerprinted image distortion, etc. An im...