Hardware Fingerprinting Using HTML5 [article]

Gabi Nakibly, Gilad Shelef, Shiran Yudilevich
2015 arXiv   pre-print
Device fingerprinting over the web has received much attention both by the research community and the commercial market a like. Almost all the fingerprinting features proposed to date depend on software run on the device. All of these features can be changed by the user, thereby thwarting the device's fingerprint. In this position paper we argue that the recent emergence of the HTML5 standard gives rise to a new class of fingerprinting features that are based on the hardware of the device. Such
more » ... features are much harder to mask or change thus provide a higher degree of confidence in the fingerprint. We propose several possible fingerprint methods that allow a HTML5 web application to identify a device's hardware. We also present an initial experiment to fingerprint a device's GPU.
arXiv:1503.01408v3 fatcat:fqnkfdcyo5clhfxo4fsbfqxtgm