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IP prefix hijacks allow adversaries to redirect and intercept traffic, posing a threat to the stability and security of the Internet. To prevent prefix hijacks, networks should deploy RPKI and filter bogus BGP announcements with invalid…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Tomas Hlavacek , Haya Shulman , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

The RPKI is crucial for securing the routing system of the Internet. With the RPKI, owners of Internet resources can make cryptographically backed claims, for example about the legitimate origin of their IP space. Thousands of networks use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Moritz Müller-Brus , Lisa Bruder , Caspar Schutijser , Ralph Koning

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is the main mechanism to protect inter-domain routing with BGP from prefix hijacks. It has already been widely deployed by large providers and the adoption rate is getting to a critical point.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Donika Mirdita , Haya Schulmann , Michael Waidner

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) protocol was standardized to add cryptographic security to Internet routing. With over 50% of Internet resources protected with RPKI today, the protocol already impacts significant parts of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is vital to the security of inter-domain routing. However, RPKI enables Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) to unilaterally takedown IP prefixes - indeed, such attacks have been launched by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-05 Kris Shrishak , Haya Shulman

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) aims to secure internet routing by creating an infrastructure where resource holders can make attestations about their resources. RPKI Certificate Authorities issue these attestations and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Koen van Hove , Jeroen van der Ham , Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) secures the Internet's routing system by defining a complex trust and validation framework for certificates, Route Origin Authorizations (ROAs), manifests, and Certificate Revocation Lists…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Oliver Jacobsen , Tobias Kirsch , Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

BGP prefix hijacking is a threat to Internet operators and users. Several mechanisms or modifications to BGP that protect the Internet against it have been proposed. However, the reality is that most operators have not deployed them and are…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-10 Pavlos Sermpezis , Vasileios Kotronis , Alberto Dainotti , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

We present F-PKI, an enhancement to the HTTPS public-key infrastructure (or web PKI) that gives trust flexibility to both clients and domain owners, and enables certification authorities (CAs) to enforce stronger security measures. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Laurent Chuat , Cyrill Krähenbühl , Prateek Mittal , Adrian Perrig

Tor is a well-known anonymous communication tool, used by people with various privacy and security needs. Prior works have exploited routing attacks to observe Tor traffic and deanonymize Tor users. Subsequently, location-aware relay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Zhifan Lu , Siyang Sun , Yixin Sun

We demonstrate the first downgrade attacks against RPKI. The key design property in RPKI that allows our attacks is the tradeoff between connectivity and security: when networks cannot retrieve RPKI information from publication points, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Tomas Hlavacek , Philipp Jeitner , Donika Mirdita , Haya Shulman , Michael Waidner

Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) is a critical security mechanism for BGP, but the complexity of its architecture is a growing concern as its adoption scales. Current RPKI design heavily reuses legacy PKI components, such as X.509…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel

BGP is the default inter-domain routing protocol in today's Internet, but has serious security vulnerabilities\cite{murphy2005bgp}. One of them is (sub)prefix hijacking. IETF standardizes RPKI to validate the AS origin but RPKI has a lot of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Wenjie Xu , Deliang Chang , Xing Li

To protect against prefix hijacks, Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has been standardized. To enjoy the security guarantees of RPKI validation, networks need to install a new component, the relying party validator, which fetches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Jens Friess , Donika Mirdita , Haya Schulmann , Michael Waidner

The adoption of security protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) has significantly improved the state of traffic encryption and integrity protection on the Internet. Despite rigorous analysis, vulnerabilities continue to emerge,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Mariam Moustafa , Mohit Sethi , Tuomas Aura

The vulnerability of the Internet has been demonstrated by prominent IP prefix hijacking events. Major outages such as the China Telecom incident in 2010 stimulate speculations about malicious intentions behind such anomalies. Surprisingly,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-02-22 Johann Schlamp , Josef Gustafsson , Matthias Wählisch , Thomas C. Schmidt , Georg Carle

Several years of academic and industrial research efforts have converged to a common understanding on fundamental security building blocks for the upcoming Vehicular Communication (VC) systems. There is a growing consensus towards deploying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Mohammad Khodaei , Hongyu Jin , Panos Papadimitratos

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is a certificate-based technology that helps in authenticating systems identities. HTTPS/TLS relies mainly on PKI to minimize fraud over the Internet. Nowadays, websites utilize CDNs to improve user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Hisham Galal , Mohammad Mannan , Amr Youssef

The security of public key validation protocols for web-based applications has recently attracted attention because of weaknesses in the certificate authority model, and consequent attacks. Recent proposals using public logs have succeeded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Jiangshan Yu , Vincent Cheval , Mark Ryan

TLS stripping attacks expose sensitive web traffic by forcing secure HTTPS connections to fall back to unencrypted HTTP. At present, protection against these attacks relies on website operators explicitly opting into security by deploying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Aaron van Diepen , Adrian Zapletal , Fernando Kuipers
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