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What Are You Searching For? A Remote Keylogging Attack on Search Engine Autocomplete
Search autocomplete fires a request per keystroke, so an eavesdropper on encrypted traffic can combine packet inter-arrival timing, the percent-encoded Space character in the query URL, and HTTP/2 HPACK static Huffman code lengths to reconstruct what was typed. Up to 15 percent of queries were identified from a 12,000-word dictionary.
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- John V. Monaco
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- usenix.org
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