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There has been a growing interest in Internet user privacy, demonstrated by the popularity of privacy-preserving products such as Telegram and Brave, and the widespread adoption of HTTPS. The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key component of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yunming Xiao , Peizhi Liu , Ruijie Yu , Chenkai Weng , Matteo Varvello , Aleksandar Kuzmanovic

The Domain Name System (DNS) is central to all Internet user activity, resolving accessed domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. As a result, curious DNS resolvers can learn everything about Internet users' interests. Public…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Philip Sjösvärd , Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

The Domain Name System (DNS) was created to resolve the IP addresses of the web servers to easily remembered names. When it was initially created, security was not a major concern; nowadays, this lack of inherent security and trust has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Pavlos Papadopoulos , Nikolaos Pitropakis , William J. Buchanan , Owen Lo , Sokratis Katsikas

The domain name system (DNS) is an important protocol in today's Internet operation, and is the standard naming convention between domain names, names that are easy to read, understand, and remember by humans, to IP address of Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ah Reum Kang , Jeffrey Spaulding , Aziz Mohaisen

The domain name system (DNS) that maps alphabetic names to numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses plays a foundational role for Internet communications. By default, DNS queries and responses are exchanged in unencrypted plaintext, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Minzhao Lyu , Hassan Habibi Gharakheili , Vijay Sivaraman

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the foundation of a human-usable Internet, responding to client queries for host-names with corresponding IP addresses and records. Traditional DNS is also unencrypted, and leaks user information to network…

The domain name system (DNS) is one of the most important components of today's Internet, and is the standard naming convention between human-readable domain names and machine-routable IP addresses of Internet resources. However, due to the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Aminollah Khormali , Jeman Park , Hisham Alasmary , Afsah Anwar , David Mohaisen

Recent developments to encrypt the Domain Name System (DNS) have resulted in major browser and operating system vendors deploying encrypted DNS functionality, often enabling various configurations and settings by default. In many cases,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Alexandra Nisenoff , Ranya Sharma , Nick Feamster

Domain name system communication may provide sensitive information on users' Internet activity. DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS are proposals aiming at increasing the privacy of Internet end users. In this paper we present an overview of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Kamil Jerabek , Ondrej Rysavy , Ivana Burgetova

The current Domain Name System (DNS), as a core infrastructure of the internet, exhibits several shortcomings: its centralized architecture leads to censorship risks and single points of failure, making domain name resolution vulnerable to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Guang Yang

Although the security benefits of domain name encryption technologies such as DNS over TLS (DoT), DNS over HTTPS (DoH), and Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) are clear, their positive impact on user privacy is weakened by--the still exposed--IP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Arian Akhavan Niaki , Phillipa Gill , Michalis Polychronakis

Emerging protocols such as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) improve the privacy of DNS queries and responses. While this trend towards encryption is positive, deployment of these protocols has in some cases resulted in further…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Austin Hounsel , Paul Schmitt , Kevin Borgolte , Nick Feamster

As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet communication to be observed, the use of network traffic encryption technologies (e.g., HTTPS/TLS) is on the rise. However, even when encryption is enabled,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Arian Akhavan Niaki , Nikita Borisov , Phillipa Gill , Michalis Polychronakis

Virtually every Internet communication typically involves a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup for the destination server that the client wants to communicate with. Operators of DNS recursive resolvers---the machines that receive a client's…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Paul Schmitt , Anne Edmundson , Nick Feamster

The absence of security and privacy measures between DNS recursive resolvers and authoritative nameservers has been exploited by both on-path and off-path attackers. Although numerous security proposals have been introduced in practice and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ali Sadeghi Jahromi , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

Cloud providers' support for network evasion techniques that misrepresent the server's domain name is more prevalent than previously believed, which has serious implications for security and privacy due to the reliance on domain names in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Blake Anderson , David McGrew

The Domain Name System (DNS) is essential for the Internet, giving a mechanism to resolve hostnames into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS is known as the world's largest distributed database that manages hostnames and Internet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hassnain ul hassan , Rizal Mohd Nor , Md Amiruzzaman , Sharyar Wani , Md. Rajibul Islam

DNS, one of the fundamental protocols of the TCP/IP stack, has evolved over the years to protect against threats and attacks. This study examines the risks associated with DNS and explores recent advancements that contribute towards making…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Levente Csikor , Dinil Mon Divakaran

Data mining is the way toward mining fascinating patterns or information from an enormous level of the database. Data mining additionally opens another risk to privacy and data security.One of the maximum significant themes in the research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Dhinakaran D , Joe Prathap P. M

Daily, massive volume of data are produced due to the internet of things' rapid development, which has now permeated the healthcare industry. Recent advances in data mining have spawned a new field of a study dubbed privacy-preserving data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Robinson Onyemechi Oturugbum
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