Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                         R. Winter
Request for Comments: 8386       University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
Category: Informational                                         M. Faath
ISSN: 2070-1721                                             Conntac GmbH
                                                           F. Weisshaar
                                University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
                                                               May 2018


                      Privacy Considerations for
            Protocols Relying on IP Broadcast or Multicast

Abstract

  A number of application-layer protocols make use of IP broadcast or
  multicast messages for functions such as local service discovery or
  name resolution.  Some of these functions can only be implemented
  efficiently using such mechanisms.  When using broadcast or multicast
  messages, a passive observer in the same broadcast or multicast
  domain can trivially record these messages and analyze their content.
  Therefore, designers of protocols that make use of broadcast or
  multicast messages need to take special care when designing their
  protocols.

Status of This Memo

  This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
  published for informational purposes.

  This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
  received public review and has been approved for publication by the
  Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Not all documents
  approved by the IESG are candidates for any level of Internet
  Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 7841.

  Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
  and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
  https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8386.












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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction ....................................................2
     1.1. Types and Usage of Broadcast and Multicast .................4
     1.2. Requirements Language ......................................5
  2. Privacy Considerations ..........................................5
     2.1. Message Frequency ..........................................5
     2.2. Persistent Identifiers .....................................6
     2.3. Anticipate User Behavior ...................................6
     2.4. Consider Potential Correlation .............................7
     2.5. Configurability ............................................7
  3. Operational Considerations ......................................8
  4. Summary .........................................................8
  5. Other Considerations ............................................9
  6. IANA Considerations ............................................10
  7. Security Considerations ........................................10
  8. References .....................................................10
     8.1. Normative References ......................................10
     8.2. Informative References ....................................10
  Acknowledgments ...................................................13
  Authors' Addresses ................................................13

1.  Introduction

  Broadcast and multicast messages have a large (and, to the sender,
  unknown) receiver group by design.  Because of that, these two
  mechanisms are vital for a number of basic network functions such as
  autoconfiguration and link-layer address lookup.  Also, application
  developers use broadcast/multicast messages to implement things such
  as local service or peer discovery.  It appears that an increasing
  number of applications make use of it as suggested by experimental
  results obtained on campus networks, including the IETF meeting
  network [TRAC2016].  This trend is not entirely surprising.  As



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  [RFC919] puts it, "The use of broadcasts [...] is a good base for
  many applications".  Broadcast and multicast functionality in a
  subnetwork is therefore important because a lack thereof renders the
  protocols relying on these mechanisms inoperable [RFC3819].

  Using broadcast/multicast can become problematic if the information
  that is being distributed can be regarded as sensitive or if the
  information that is distributed by multiple protocols can be
  correlated in a way that sensitive data can be derived.  This is
  clearly true for any protocol, but broadcast/multicast is special in
  at least two respects:

  (a)  The aforementioned large receiver group consists of receivers
       unknown to the sender.  This makes eavesdropping without special
       privileges or a special location in the network trivial for
       anybody in the same broadcast/multicast domain.

  (b)  Encryption is difficult when broadcast/multicast messages are
       used, because, for instance, a non-trivial key management
       protocol might be required.  When encryption is not used, the
       content of these messages is easily accessible, making it easy
       to spoof and replay them.

  Given the above, privacy protection for protocols based on broadcast
  or multicast communication is significantly more difficult compared
  to unicast communication, and at the same time, invasion of privacy
  is much easier.

  Privacy considerations for IETF-specified protocols have received
  some attention in the recent past (e.g., [RFC7721] and [RFC7819]).
  There is also general guidance available for document authors on when
  and how to include a privacy considerations section in their
  documents and on how to evaluate the privacy implications of Internet
  protocols [RFC6973].  RFC 6973 also describes potential threats to
  privacy in great detail and lists terminology that is also used in
  this document.  In contrast to RFC 6973, this document contains a
  number of privacy considerations, especially for protocols that rely
  on broadcast/multicast, that are intended to reduce the likelihood
  that a broadcast- or multicast-based protocol can be misused to
  collect sensitive data about devices, users, and groups of users in a
  broadcast/multicast domain.

  The above-mentioned considerations particularly apply to protocols
  designed outside the IETF for two reasons.  First, non-standard
  protocols will likely not receive operational attention and support
  in making them more secure, e.g., what DHCP snooping does for DHCP.
  Because these protocols are typically not documented, network
  equipment does not provide similar features for them.  Second, these



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  protocols have been designed in isolation, where a set of
  considerations to follow is useful in the absence of a larger
  community providing feedback and expertise to improve the protocol.
  In particular, carelessly designed protocols that use broadcast/
  multicast can break privacy efforts at different layers of the
  protocol stack such as Media Access Control (MAC) address or IP
  address randomization [RFC4941].

1.1.  Types and Usage of Broadcast and Multicast

  In IPv4, two major types of broadcast addresses exist: limited
  broadcast and directed broadcast.  Section 5.3.5 of [RFC1812] defines
  limited broadcast as all-ones (255.255.255.255) and defines directed
  broadcast as the given network prefix of an IP address and the local
  part of all-ones.  Broadcast packets are received by all nodes in a
  subnetwork.  Limited broadcasts never transit a router.  The same is
  true for directed broadcasts by default, but routers may provide an
  option to do this [RFC2644].  IPv6, on the other hand, does not
  provide broadcast addresses but relies solely on multicast [RFC4291].

  In contrast to broadcast addresses, multicast addresses represent an
  identifier for a set of interfaces that can be a set different from
  all nodes in the subnetwork.  All interfaces that are identified by a
  given multicast address receive packets destined towards that address
  and are called a "multicast group".  In both IPv4 and IPv6, multiple
  pre-defined multicast addresses exist.  The ones most relevant for
  this document are the ones with subnet scope.  For IPv4, an IP prefix
  called the "Local Network Control Block" (224.0.0.0/24, defined in
  Section 4 of [RFC5771]) is reserved for this purpose.  For IPv6, the
  relevant multicast addresses are the two All Nodes Addresses, which
  every IPv6-capable host is required to recognize as identifying
  itself (see Section 2.7.1 of [RFC4291]).

  Typical usage of these addresses includes local service discovery
  (e.g., Multicast DNS (mDNS) [RFC6762] and Link-Local Multicast Name
  Resolution (LLMNR) [RFC4795] make use of multicast),
  autoconfiguration (e.g., DHCPv4 [RFC2131] uses broadcasts, and DHCPv6
  [RFC3315] uses multicast addresses), and other vital network services
  such as address resolution or duplicate address detection.  Aside
  from these core network functions, applications also make use of
  broadcast and multicast functionality, often implementing proprietary
  protocols.  In sum, these protocols distribute a diverse set of
  potentially privacy-sensitive information to a large receiver group,
  and the only requirement to be part of this receiver group is to be
  on the same subnetwork.






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1.2.  Requirements Language

  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
  "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
  BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
  capitals, as shown here.

2.  Privacy Considerations

  There are a few obvious and a few not necessarily obvious things that
  designers of protocols utilizing broadcast/multicast should consider
  in respect to the privacy implications for their protocol.  Most of
  these items are based on protocol behavior observed as part of
  experiments on operational networks [TRAC2016].

2.1.  Message Frequency

  Frequent broadcast/multicast traffic caused by an application can
  give away user behavior and online connection times.  This allows a
  passive observer to potentially deduce a user's current activity
  (e.g., a game) and to create an online profile (i.e., times the user
  is on the network).  This profile becomes more accurate as the
  frequency of messages and the time duration over which they are sent
  increases.  Given that broadcast/multicast messages are only visible
  in the same broadcast/multicast domain, these messages also give away
  the rough location of the user (e.g., a campus or building).

  This behavior has, for example, been observed by a synchronization
  mechanism of a popular application, where multiple messages have been
  sent per minute via broadcast.  Given this behavior, it is possible
  to record a device's time on the network with a sub-minute accuracy
  given only the traffic of this single application installed on the
  device.  Also, services used for local name resolution in modern
  operating systems utilize broadcast- or multicast-based protocols
  (e.g., mDNS, LLMNR, or NetBIOS) to announce, for example, resources
  on a regular basis.  This also allows tracking of the online times of
  a device.

  If a protocol relies on frequent or periodic broadcast/multicast
  messages, the frequency SHOULD be chosen conservatively, in
  particular if the messages contain persistent identifiers (see
  Section 2.2).  Also, intelligent message suppression mechanisms such
  as the ones employed in mDNS [RFC6762] SHOULD be implemented.  The
  lower the frequency of broadcast messages, the harder passive traffic
  analysis and surveillance becomes.





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2.2.  Persistent Identifiers

  A few protocols that make use of broadcast/multicast messages
  observed in the wild also make use of persistent identifiers.  This
  includes the use of host names or more abstract persistent
  identifiers such as a Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) or
  similar.  These IDs, which, for example, identify the installation of
  a certain application, might not change across updates of the
  software and can therefore be extremely long lived.  This allows a
  passive observer to track a user precisely if broadcast/multicast
  messages are frequent.  This is even true if the IP and/or MAC
  address changes.  Such identifiers also allow two different
  interfaces (e.g., Wi-Fi and Ethernet) to be correlated to the same
  device.  If the application makes use of persistent identifiers for
  multiple installations of the same application for the same user,
  this even allows a passive observer to infer that different devices
  belong to the same user.

  The aforementioned broadcast messages from a synchronization
  mechanism of a popular application also included a persistent
  identifier in every broadcast.  This identifier never changed after
  the application was installed, which allowed for the tracking of a
  device even when it changed its network interface or when it
  connected to a different network.

  In general, persistent IDs are considered bad practice for broadcast
  and multicast communication, as persistent application-layer IDs will
  make efforts to randomize identifiers (e.g., [RANDOM-ADDR]) on lower
  layers useless.  When protocols that make use of broadcast/multicast
  need to make use of IDs, these IDs SHOULD be rotated frequently to
  make user tracking more difficult.

2.3.  Anticipate User Behavior

  A large number of users name their device after themselves, either
  using their first name, last name, or both.  Often, a host name
  includes the type, model, or maker of a device, its function, or
  language-specific information.  Based on data gathered during
  experiments performed at IETF meetings and at a large campus network,
  this appears to be the currently prevalent user behavior [TRAC2016].
  For protocols using the host name as part of the messages, this
  clearly will reveal personally identifiable information to everyone
  on the local network.  This information can also be used to mount
  more sophisticated attacks, e.g., when the owner of a device is
  identified (as an interesting target) or properties of the device are
  known (e.g., known vulnerabilities).  Host names are also a type of
  persistent identifier; therefore, the considerations in Section 2.2
  apply.



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  Some of the most commonly used operating systems include the name the
  user chooses for the user account during the installation process as
  part of the host name of the device.  The name of the operating
  system can also be included, therefore revealing two pieces of
  information that can be regarded as private information if the host
  name is used in broadcast/multicast messages.

  Where possible, the use of host names and other user-provided
  information in protocols making use of broadcast/multicast SHOULD be
  avoided.  An application might want to display the information it
  will broadcast on the LAN at install/config time, so that the user is
  at least aware of the application's behavior.  More host name
  considerations can be found in [RFC8117].  More information on user
  participation can be found in [RFC6973].

2.4.  Consider Potential Correlation

  A large number of services and applications make use of the
  broadcast/multicast mechanism.  That means there are various sources
  of information that are easily accessible by a passive observer.  In
  isolation, the information these protocols reveal might seem
  harmless, but given multiple such protocols, it might be possible to
  correlate this information.  For example, a protocol that uses
  frequent messages including a UUID to identify the particular
  installation does not give away the identity of the user.  However, a
  single message including the user's host name might do that, and it
  can be correlated using, for example, the MAC address of the device's
  interface.

  In the experiments described in [TRAC2016], it was possible to
  correlate frequently sent broadcast messages that included a unique
  identifier with other broadcast/multicast messages containing
  usernames (e.g. mDNS, LLMNR, or NetBIOS); this revealed relationships
  among users.  This allowed the real identity of the users of many
  devices to be revealed, and it also gave away some information about
  their social environment.

  A designer of a protocol that makes use of broadcast/multicast needs
  to be aware of the fact that even if the information a protocol leaks
  seems harmless in isolation, there might be ways to correlate that
  information with information from other protocols to reveal sensitive
  information about a user.

2.5.  Configurability

  A lot of applications and services relying on broadcast- or
  multicast-based protocols do not include the means to declare "safe"
  environments (e.g., based on the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of a



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  Wi-Fi network and the MAC addresses of the access points).  For
  example, a device connected to a public Wi-Fi network will likely
  broadcast the same information as when connected to the home network.
  It would be beneficial if certain behaviors could be restricted to
  "safe" environments.

  For example, a popular operating system allows the user to specify
  the trust level of the network the device connects to, which, for
  example, restricts specific system services (using broadcast/
  multicast messages for their normal operation) to be used in trusted
  networks only.  Such functionality could be implemented as part of an
  application.

  An application developer making use of broadcast/multicast messages
  as part of the application SHOULD, if possible, make the broadcast
  feature configurable so that potentially sensitive information does
  not leak on public networks where the threat to privacy is much
  larger.

3.  Operational Considerations

  Besides changing end-user behavior, choosing sensible defaults as an
  operating system vendor (e.g., for suggesting host names), and
  following the considerations for protocol designers mentioned in this
  document, there is something that the network administrators/
  operators can do to limit the above-mentioned problems.

  A feature commonly found on access points is the ability to manage/
  filter broadcast and multicast traffic.  This will potentially break
  certain applications or some of their functionality but will also
  protect the users from potentially leaking sensitive information.
  Wireless access points often provide finer-grained control beyond a
  simple on/off switch for well-known protocols or provide mechanisms
  to manage broadcast/multicast traffic intelligently using, for
  example, proxies (see [MCAST-CONS]).  However, these mechanisms only
  work on standardized protocols.

4.  Summary

  Increasingly, applications rely on protocols that send and receive
  broadcast and multicast messages.  For some, broadcast/multicast
  messages are the basis of their application logic; others use
  broadcast/multicast messages to improve certain aspects of the
  application but are fully functional in case broadcast/multicast
  messages fail.  Irrespective of the role of broadcast and multicast
  messages for the application, the designers of protocols that make
  use of them should be very careful in their protocol design because
  of the special nature of broadcast and multicast.



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  It is not always possible to implement certain functionality via
  unicast, but if a protocol designer chooses to rely on broadcast/
  multicast, the following should be carefully considered:

  o  IETF-specified protocols, such as mDNS [RFC6762], SHOULD be used
     if possible as operational support might exist to protect against
     the leakage of private information.  Also, for some protocols,
     privacy extensions are being specified; these can be used if
     implemented.  For example, for DNS-SD, privacy extensions are
     documented in [DNSSD-PRIV].

  o  Using user-specified information inside broadcast/multicast
     messages SHOULD be avoided, as users will often use personal
     information or other information that aids attackers, in
     particular if the user is unaware about how that information is
     being used.

  o  The use of persistent IDs in messages SHOULD be avoided, as this
     allows user tracking and correlation, and it potentially has a
     devastating effect on other privacy-protection mechanisms.

  o  If one must design a new protocol relying on broadcast/multicast
     and cannot use an IETF-specified protocol, then:

     *  the protocol SHOULD be very conservative in how frequently it
        sends messages as an effort in data minimization,

     *  it SHOULD make use of mechanisms implemented in IETF-specified
        protocols that can be helpful in privacy protection, such as
        message suppression in mDNS,

     *  it SHOULD be designed in such a way that information sent in
        broadcast/multicast messages cannot be correlated with
        information from other protocols using broadcast/multicast, and

     *  it SHOULD be possible to let the user configure "safe"
        environments if possible (e.g., based on the SSID) to minimize
        the risk of information leakage (e.g., a home network as
        opposed to a public Wi-Fi network).

5.  Other Considerations

  Besides privacy implications, frequent broadcasting also represents a
  performance problem.  In particular, in certain wireless technologies
  such as 802.11, broadcast and multicast are transmitted at a much
  lower rate (the lowest common denominator rate) compared to unicast
  and therefore have a much bigger impact on the overall available
  airtime [MCAST-CONS].  Further, it will limit the ability for devices



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  to go to sleep if frequent broadcasts are being sent.  A similar
  problem in respect to Router Advertisements is addressed in
  [RFC7772].  In that respect, broadcast/multicast can be used for
  another class of attacks that is not related to privacy.  The
  potential impact on network performance should nevertheless be
  considered when designing a protocol that makes use of broadcast/
  multicast.

6.  IANA Considerations

  This document has no IANA actions.

7.  Security Considerations

  This document deals with privacy-related considerations for
  broadcast- and multicast-based protocols.  It contains advice for
  designers of such protocols to minimize the leakage of privacy-
  sensitive information.  The intent of the advice is to make sure that
  identities will remain anonymous and user tracking will be made
  difficult.

  To protect multicast traffic, certain applications can make use of
  existing mechanisms, such as the ones defined in [RFC5374].  Examples
  of such applications can be found in Appendix A of [RFC5374].
  However, given the assumptions about these applications and the
  required security infrastructure, many applications will not be able
  to make use of such mechanisms.

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

  [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

  [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
             2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
             May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

8.2.  Informative References

  [DNSSD-PRIV]
             Huitema, C. and D. Kaiser, "Privacy Extensions for DNS-
             SD", Work in Progress, draft-ietf-dnssd-privacy-04, April
             2018.




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  [MCAST-CONS]
             Perkins, C., McBride, M., Stanley, D., Kumari, W., and J.
             Zuniga, "Multicast Considerations over IEEE 802 Wireless
             Media", Work in Progress, draft-ietf-mboned-ieee802-mcast-
             problems-01, February 2018.

  [RANDOM-ADDR]
             Huitema, C., "Implications of Randomized Link Layers
             Addresses for IPv6 Address Assignment", Work in Progress,
             draft-huitema-6man-random-addresses-03, March 2016.

  [RFC919]   Mogul, J., "Broadcasting Internet Datagrams", STD 5,
             RFC 919, DOI 10.17487/RFC0919, October 1984,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc919>.

  [RFC1812]  Baker, F., Ed., "Requirements for IP Version 4 Routers",
             RFC 1812, DOI 10.17487/RFC1812, June 1995,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1812>.

  [RFC2131]  Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
             RFC 2131, DOI 10.17487/RFC2131, March 1997,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2131>.

  [RFC2644]  Senie, D., "Changing the Default for Directed Broadcasts
             in Routers", BCP 34, RFC 2644, DOI 10.17487/RFC2644,
             August 1999, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2644>.

  [RFC3315]  Droms, R., Ed., Bound, J., Volz, B., Lemon, T., Perkins,
             C., and M. Carney, "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
             for IPv6 (DHCPv6)", RFC 3315, DOI 10.17487/RFC3315, July
             2003, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3315>.

  [RFC3819]  Karn, P., Ed., Bormann, C., Fairhurst, G., Grossman, D.,
             Ludwig, R., Mahdavi, J., Montenegro, G., Touch, J., and L.
             Wood, "Advice for Internet Subnetwork Designers", BCP 89,
             RFC 3819, DOI 10.17487/RFC3819, July 2004,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3819>.

  [RFC4291]  Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
             Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
             2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.

  [RFC4795]  Aboba, B., Thaler, D., and L. Esibov, "Link-local
             Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)", RFC 4795,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC4795, January 2007,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4795>.





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  [RFC4941]  Narten, T., Draves, R., and S. Krishnan, "Privacy
             Extensions for Stateless Address Autoconfiguration in
             IPv6", RFC 4941, DOI 10.17487/RFC4941, September 2007,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4941>.

  [RFC5374]  Weis, B., Gross, G., and D. Ignjatic, "Multicast
             Extensions to the Security Architecture for the Internet
             Protocol", RFC 5374, DOI 10.17487/RFC5374, November 2008,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5374>.

  [RFC5771]  Cotton, M., Vegoda, L., and D. Meyer, "IANA Guidelines for
             IPv4 Multicast Address Assignments", BCP 51, RFC 5771,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC5771, March 2010,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5771>.

  [RFC6762]  Cheshire, S. and M. Krochmal, "Multicast DNS", RFC 6762,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC6762, February 2013,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6762>.

  [RFC6973]  Cooper, A., Tschofenig, H., Aboba, B., Peterson, J.,
             Morris, J., Hansen, M., and R. Smith, "Privacy
             Considerations for Internet Protocols", RFC 6973,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC6973, July 2013,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6973>.

  [RFC7721]  Cooper, A., Gont, F., and D. Thaler, "Security and Privacy
             Considerations for IPv6 Address Generation Mechanisms",
             RFC 7721, DOI 10.17487/RFC7721, March 2016,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7721>.

  [RFC7772]  Yourtchenko, A. and L. Colitti, "Reducing Energy
             Consumption of Router Advertisements", BCP 202, RFC 7772,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC7772, February 2016,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7772>.

  [RFC7819]  Jiang, S., Krishnan, S., and T. Mrugalski, "Privacy
             Considerations for DHCP", RFC 7819, DOI 10.17487/RFC7819,
             April 2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7819>.

  [RFC8117]  Huitema, C., Thaler, D., and R. Winter, "Current Hostname
             Practice Considered Harmful", RFC 8117,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC8117, March 2017,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8117>.








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RFC 8386       Broadcast/Multicast Privacy Considerations       May 2018


  [TRAC2016] Faath, M., Weisshaar, F., and R. Winter, "How Broadcast
             Data Reveals Your Identity and Social Graph", Wireless
             Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
             (IWCMC), International Workshop on TRaffic Analysis and
             Characterization (TRAC), DOI 10.1109/IWCMC.2016.7577084,
             September 2016.

Acknowledgments

  We would like to thank Eliot Lear, Joe Touch, and Stephane Bortzmeyer
  for their valuable input to this document.

  This work was partly supported by the European Commission under grant
  agreement FP7-318627 mPlane.  Support does not imply endorsement.

Authors' Addresses

  Rolf Winter
  University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
  Augsburg
  Germany

  Email: [email protected]


  Michael Faath
  Conntac GmbH
  Augsburg
  Germany

  Email: [email protected]


  Fabian Weisshaar
  University of Applied Sciences Augsburg
  Augsburg
  Germany

  Email: [email protected]












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