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The Domain Name System (DNS) serves as the backbone of the Internet, primarily translating domain names to IP addresses. Over time, various enhancements have been introduced to strengthen the integrity of DNS. Among these, DNSSEC stands out…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Aduma Rishith , Aditya Kulkarni , Tamal Das , Vivek Balachandran

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

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

The DNS (Domain Name System) protocol has been in use since the early days of the Internet. Although DNS as a de facto networking protocol had no security considerations in its early years, there have been many security enhancements, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Abdullah Aydeger , Sanzida Hoque , Engin Zeydan , Kapal Dev

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 Security Extensions (DNSSEC) are critical for preventing DNS spoofing, yet its specifications contain ambiguities and vulnerabilities that elude traditional "break-and-fix" approaches. A holistic, foundational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Qifan Zhang , Zilin Shen , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino , Zhou Li

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) 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

Over the past three decades, since its invention, the Internet has evolved in both its sheer volume and usage. The Internet's core protocol, Internet Protocol (IP), has proven its usability and effectiveness to support a communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Shuoshuo Chen , Fabrice Mizero

The threats of caching poisoning attacks largely stimulate the deployment of DNSSEC. Being a strong but demanding cryptographical defense, DNSSEC has its universal adoption predicted to go through a lengthy transition. Thus the DNSSEC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zheng Wang

Although the Domain Name System (DNS) was designed as a naming system, its features have made it appealing to repurpose it for the deployment of novel systems. One important class of such systems are security enhancements, and this work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Pawel Szalachowski , Adrian Perrig

The Domain Name System (DNS) service is one of the pillars of the Internet. This service allows users to access websites on the Internet through easy-to-remember domain names rather than complex numeric IP addresses. DNS acts as a directory…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Demétrio F. Boeira , Eder J. Scheid , Muriel F. Franco , Luciano Zembruzki , Lisandro Z. Granville

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

Availability is a major concern in the design of DNSSEC. To ensure availability, DNSSEC follows Postel's Law [RFC1123]: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." Hence, nameservers should send not just one matching…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Elias Heftrig , Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

A safe and secure Domain Name System (DNS) is of paramount importance for the digital economy and society. Malicious activities on the DNS, generally referred to as "DNS abuse" are frequent and severe problems affecting online security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jan Bayer , Yevheniya Nosyk , Olivier Hureau , Simon Fernandez , Ivett Paulovics , Andrzej Duda , Maciej Korczyński

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

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

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

Virtually every connection to an Internet service is preceded by a DNS lookup which is performed without any traffic-level protection, thus enabling manipulation, redirection, surveillance, and censorship. To address these issues, large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Sandra Siby , Marc Juarez , Claudia Diaz , Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez , Carmela Troncoso

Domain Name System (DNS) domains became Internet-level identifiers for entities (like companies, organizations, or individuals) hosting services and sharing resources over the Internet. Domains can specify a set of security policies (such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Gaurav Varshney , Pawel Szalachowski
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