Website fingerprinting on Nym: Attacks and Defenses

Website Fingerprinting on Nym: Attacks and Defenses This directory contains the datasets for the paper "Website Fingerprinting on Nym: Attacks and Defenses" accepted at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETs) 2026. The datasets include Website Fingerprinting (WF) experiments with Tor and Nym mixnet configurations. Directory Structure full_list/ Complete dataset of monitored and unmonitored websites captured across different network configurations for websites in the Full List. Format: <website_url> <num_packets> <timestamp1>:<size1> <timestamp2>:<size2> ... where positive sizes are incoming packets and negative sizes are outgoing packets. reduced_list/ Processed traffic data with various Nym mixnet configurations and defense mechanisms for websites in the Reduced List. Each subdirectory contains aggregated traffic traces in time-series format: <website_url> <num_packets> <timestamp1>:<size1> <timestamp2>:<size2> ... where positive sizes are incoming packets and negative sizes are outgoing packets. traffic_captures/ Same traces as in `reduced_list/` but stored as individual trace files. Format: <timestamp>\t<signed_volume> (one packet per line), where timestamp is in <website_index>-<page_number>. train_test_WF/ Pre-processed pickle files ready for Website Fingerprinting attack training using the ExplainWF framework. Generated from `traffic_captures/` using the transform_to_ml.ipynb notebook. Each pickle file contains a tuple (X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test) with 60/40 train/test split and stratification. overheads/ Processed data for overhead analysis including: Latency measurements Bandwidth overhead calculations Traffic volume comparisons Serialized analysis results (`infos.pkl`) Configuration Details This section describes all network configurations available across the different dataset directories. Baseline Configurations No Anonymization: no_proxy - Direct connection without any anonymization network Nym Network Variants: nym_labnet_open - Nym lab network (open world) nym_mainet_open - Nym mainnet (open world) nym_labnet_full_closed - Nym lab network (full dataset, closed world) nym_labnet_full_open - Nym lab network (full dataset, open world) nym_labnet_reduced_closed - Nym lab network (reduced dataset, closed world) nym_labnet_reduced_open - Nym lab network (reduced dataset, open world) nym_mainnet_full_closed - Nym mainnet (full dataset, closed world) nym_mainnet_full_open - Nym mainnet (full dataset, open world) nym_mainnet_reduced_closed - Nym mainnet (reduced dataset, closed world) nym_mainnet_reduced_open - Nym mainnet (reduced dataset, open world) Tor Network Variants: tor_open - Tor network (open world) tor_full_closed - Tor network (full dataset, closed world) tor_full_open - Tor network (full dataset, open world) tor_reduced_closed - Tor network (reduced dataset, closed world) tor_reduced_open - Tor network (reduced dataset, open world) Fair Evaluation: data_nym_fair_open - Nym network (fair evaluation setup) data_tor_fair_open - Tor network (fair evaluation setup) Nym Mixnet Parameter Configurations These configurations test different Nym mixnet parameter settings: configuration00_default - Default Nym configuration (baseline) configuration01_lqp10 - Proxy-side Poisson rate = 10 packets/s (LQP=10) configuration02_lqp40 - Proxy-side Poisson rate = 40 packets/s (LQP=40) configuration03_ll0 - No loop cover traffic (LL=0) configuration04_lqp0_ll0 - No proxy-side cover traffic, no loops (LQP=0, LL=0) configuration05_lqp0_lm100_ll0 - No proxy cover, no loops, mix delay = 100ms (LQP=0, LM=100, LL=0) configuration06_lqp0_lm0_ll0 - No proxy cover, no loops, no mix delay (LQP=0, LM=0, LL=0) configuration07_lm0 - No mix delay (LM=0) configuration08_lm20 - Mix delay = 20ms (LM=20) configuration09_lm100 - Mix delay = 100ms (LM=100) configuration10_lqr10 - Network requester Poisson rate = 10 packets/s (LQR=10) configuration11_lqr20 - Network requester Poisson rate = 20 packets/s (LQR=20) configuration12_lqp0_ll0_lqr10 - No proxy cover, no loops, requester rate = 10 packets/s (LQP=0, LL=0, LQR=10) Defense Mechanisms Nym Defenses: nym_defence_front - Nym with FRONT defense nym_defence_poissoff - Nym with Poisson-based defense nym_defence_wtf_pad - Nym with WTF-PAD defense nym_defence_wtf4nym - Nym with WTF4NYM defense (custom WTF-PAD variant for Nym) Tor Defenses: tor_defence_front - Tor with FRONT defense tor_defence_tamaraw - Tor with Tamaraw defense tor_defence_wtf-pad - Tor with WTF-PAD defense Flow Correlation Analysis correlation_with_defense - Traffic correlation analysis with defenses enabled correlation_without_defense - Traffic correlation analysis without defenses