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The Impact of DNS Insecurity on Time

Cryptography and Security 2020-10-20 v1 Networking and Internet Architecture

Abstract

We demonstrate the first practical off-path time shifting attacks against NTP as well as against Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) secure Chronos-enhanced NTP. Our attacks exploit the insecurity of DNS allowing us to redirect the NTP clients to attacker controlled servers. We perform large scale measurements of the attack surface in NTP clients and demonstrate the threats to NTP due to vulnerable DNS.

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@article{arxiv.2010.09338,
  title  = {The Impact of DNS Insecurity on Time},
  author = {Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman and Michael Waidner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.09338},
  year   = {2020}
}