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The rapid development of computer network system brings both a great convenience and new security threats for users. Network security problem generally includes network system security and data security. Specifically, it refers to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tulasi Udupa A , Sushma Jayaram , Shreya Ganesh Hegde

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 Internet Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical name space that enables the assignment of unique, mnemonic identifiers to Internet hosts and the consistent mapping of these names to IP addresses. The root of the domain name system…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Milton L. Mueller

This paper summarizes selected results of the dissertation "Beobachtungsm\"oglichkeiten im Domain Name System: Angriffe auf die Privatsph\"are und Techniken zum Selbstdatenschutz". The dissertation provides new technical insights to answer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Dominik Herrmann

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

Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet. A DNS resolves queries for URLs into IP addresses for the purpose of locating computer services and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Altan Cakir , Yousef Alkhanafseh , Esra Karabiyik , Erhan Kurubas , Rabia Burcu Bunyak , Cenk Anil Bahcevan

Since security was not among the original design goals of the Domain Name System (herein called Vanilla DNS), many secure DNS schemes have been proposed to enhance the security and privacy of the DNS resolution process. Some proposed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ali Sadeghi Jahromi , AbdelRahman Abdou , Paul C. van Oorschot

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

DNS is a vital component for almost every networked application. Originally it was designed as an unencrypted protocol, making user security a concern. DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) is the latest proposal to make name resolution more secure. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Timm Boettger , Felix Cuadrado , Gianni Antichi , Eder Leao Fernandes , Gareth Tyson , Ignacio Castro , Steve Uhlig

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

The Domain Name System (DNS) is both a key determinant of users' quality of experience (QoE) and privy to their tastes, preferences, and even the devices they own. Growing concern about user privacy and QoE has brought a number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Rashna Kumar , Fabián E. Bustamante

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 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

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

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

Malicious domains are one of the major resources required for adversaries to run attacks over the Internet. Due to the important role of the Domain Name System (DNS), extensive research has been conducted to identify malicious domains based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Yury Zhauniarovich , Issa Khalil , Ting Yu , Marc Dacier

Anonymity has become a significant issue in security field by recent advances in information technology and internet. The main objective of anonymity is hiding and concealing entities privacy inside a system. Many methods and protocols have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Morteza Yousefi Kharaji , Fatemeh Salehi Rizi

Domain Name Service is a trusted protocol made for name resolution, but during past years some approaches have been developed to use it for data transfer. DNS Tunneling is a method where data is encoded inside DNS queries, allowing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Franco Palau , Carlos Catania , Jorge Guerra , Sebastian Garcia , Maria Rigaki

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most fundamental components of the Internet. While glue is widely used and heavily relied on in DNS operations, there is little thinking about the necessity, complexity, and venerability of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-05 Zheng Wang

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the most important components of the Internet infrastructure. DNS relies on a delegation-based architecture, where resolution of names to their IP addresses requires resolving the names of the servers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-04-13 Marwan Radwan , Reiko Heckel