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The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This has sparked a wide range of decentralisation initiatives with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Constantinos Patsakis , Fran Casino , Nikolaos Lykousas , Vasilios Katos

The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol restrictions have been implemented. Still, the threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maynard Koch , Florian Dolzmann , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

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

Storage networking technology has enjoyed strong growth in recent years, but security concerns and threats facing networked data have grown equally fast. Today, there are many potential threats that are targeted at storage networks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-15 Siva Rama Krishnan Somayaji , Ch. A. S Murty

Over the last two decades, the scale and complexity of Anonymous networks and its associated technologies grows exponentially as privacy has become a major concern of individuals. Also, some cyber attackers make use of privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Tian Yunfan , Zhang Xiang

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 new generation of security threats has been promoted by digital currencies and real-time applications, where all users develop new ways to communicate on the Internet. Security has evolved in the need of privacy and anonymity for all…

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

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks persist as significant threats to online services and infrastructure, evolving rapidly in sophistication and eluding traditional detection mechanisms. This evolution demands a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Jincheng Wang , Le Yu , John C. S. Lui , Xiapu Luo

The importance of security in database research has greatly increased over the years as most of critical functionality of the business and military enterprises became digitized. Database is an integral part of any information system and…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-04-26 Paul Lesov

The critical role that Network Time Protocol (NTP) plays in the Internet led to multiple efforts to secure it against time-shifting attacks. A recent proposal for enhancing the security of NTP with Chronos against on-path attackers seems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Philipp Jeitner , Haya Shulman , Michael Waidner

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

DNS is a basic Internet service which almost all other user services depend on. However, what has been perceived in practice are a lot of inconsistencies and errors in the configuration of servers that cause different problems. The majority…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Petar D. Bojović , Slavko Gajin

Since its introduction in 1987, the DNS has become one of the core components of the Internet. While it was designed to work with both TCP and UDP, DNS-over-UDP (DoUDP) has become the default option due to its low overhead. As new Resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Pratyush Dikshit , Mike Kosek , Nils Faulhaber , Jayasree Sengupta , Vaibhav Bajpai

In this paper, we analyze the evolution of Certificate Transparency (CT) over time and explore the implications of exposing certificate DNS names from the perspective of security and privacy. We find that certificates in CT logs have seen…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Quirin Scheitle , Oliver Gasser , Theodor Nolte , Johanna Amann , Lexi Brent , Georg Carle , Ralph Holz , Thomas C. Schmidt , Matthias Wählisch

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 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

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

Everyone is concerned about the Internet security, yet most traffic is not cryptographically protected. The usual justification is that most attackers are only off-path and cannot intercept traffic; hence, challenge-response mechanisms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-05-07 Yossi Gilad , Amir Herzberg , Haya Shulman

Secure communication is an integral feature of many Internet services. The widely deployed TLS protects reliable transport protocols. DTLS extends TLS security services to protocols relying on plain UDP packet transport, such as VoIP or IoT…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Sebastian Gallenmüller , Dominik Schöffmann , Dominik Scholz , Fabien Geyer , Georg Carle