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The current Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure faces critical vulnerabilities including poisoning attacks, censorship mechanisms, and centralized points of failure that compromise internet freedom and security. Recent incidents such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Guang Yang , Peter Trinh , Alma Nkemla , Amuru Serikyaku , Edward Tatchim , Osman Sharaf

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

Most online communications rely on DNS to map domain names to their hosting IP address(es). Previous work has shown that DNS-based network interference is widespread due to the unencrypted and unauthenticated nature of the original DNS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Nguyen Phong Hoang , Michalis Polychronakis , Phillipa Gill

The Domain Name System (DNS) is involved in practically all web activity, translating easy-to-remember domain names into Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Due to its central role on the Internet, DNS exposes user web activity in detail. The…

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

The DNS is one of the most crucial parts of the Internet. Since the original DNS specifications defined UDP and TCP as the underlying transport protocols, DNS queries are inherently unencrypted, making them vulnerable to eavesdropping and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Mike Kosek , Trinh Viet Doan , Malte Granderath , Vaibhav Bajpai

The Domain Name System (DNS) does not provide query privacy. Query obfuscation schemes have been proposed to overcome this limitation, but, so far, they have not been evaluated in a realistic setting. In this paper we evaluate the security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Dominik Herrmann , Max Maaß , Hannes Federrath

Search engine is main access to the largest information source in this world, Internet. Now Internet is changing every aspect of our life. Information retrieval service may be its most important services. But for common user, internet…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Wang Liang , Guo Yi-Ping , Fang Ming

Recommender systems have become an integral part of many social networks and extract knowledge from a user's personal and sensitive data both explicitly, with the user's knowledge, and implicitly. This trend has created major privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Erfan Aghasian , Saurabh Garg , James Montgomery

The Domain Name System (DNS) plays a critical role in the functioning of the Internet. It provides a hierarchical name space for locating resources. Data is typically stored in plain text files, possibly spanning gigabytes. Frequent parsing…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Jeroen Koekkoek , Daniel Lemire

The namespace for filenames and DNS names has overlapped since the introduction of DNS in 1985: \texttt{.com} was the original binary format used for DOS and CP/M systems. Recently the introduction of gTLDs such as \texttt{.zip} and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Predrag Despotovic , Pranab Mishra , Kevin Rossel , Athanasios Avgetidis , Zane Ma

Domain names are key assets for organisation. They anchor an organisation's online presence and reputation, and serve as linking pin for web services and, e.g., email. Consequently, a malicious takeover of a domain can lead to significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Koen van Hove , Jeroen van der Ham-de Vos , Roland van Rijswijk-Deij

The Internet's TCP/IP architecture was designed for resilient packet delivery between hosts identified by IP addresses. Over time, however, the consolidation of applications and services into large-scale platforms built on that universal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Geoff Huston , Lixia Zhang

The Internet has many backbone components on top of which the whole world is connected. It is important to make these components, like Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Domain Name System (DNS), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), secure and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Faizan Safdar Ali , Alptekin Kupcu

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

There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware exercise in order to bypass the deployed security mechanisms. A typical approach to evade the identification and potential takedown of a botnet command and control…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Constantinos Patsakis , Fran Casino , Vasilios Katos

Given the importance of privacy, many Internet protocols are nowadays designed with privacy in mind (e.g., using TLS for confidentiality). Foreseeing all privacy issues at the time of protocol design is, however, challenging and may become…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Olivier van der Toorn , Raffaele Sommese , Anna Sperotto , Roland van Rijswijk-Deij , Mattijs Jonker

Enterprise Networks are growing in scale and complexity, with heterogeneous connected assets needing to be secured in different ways. Nevertheless, virtually all connected assets use the Domain Name System (DNS) for address resolution, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Jawad Ahmed

Domain Name Service (DNS) resolution is a mechanism that resolves the symbolic names of networked devices to their corresponding Internet Protocol (IP) address. With the emergence of the document that describes an extension to a DNS service…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Ivica Stipovic

High-bandwidth covert channels pose significant risks to sensitive and proprietary information inside company networks. Domain Name System (DNS) tunnels provide a means to covertly infiltrate and exfiltrate large amounts of information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Kenton Born , David Gustafson

Information-Centric Networks (ICN) are promising alternatives to current Internet architecture since the Internet struggles with a number of issues such as scalability, mobility and security. ICN offers a number of potential benefits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Yong Yu , Yannan Li , Xiaojiang Du , Ruonan Chen , Bo Yang