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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) secures Internet routing by binding IP prefixes to authorized Autonomous Systems, yet its RSA foundations are vulnerable to quantum adversaries. A naive swap to post-quantum (PQ) signatures (eg…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Weitong Li , Yuze Li , Taejoong Chung

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

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

Over recent years, the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has seen increasing adoption, with now 37.8% of the major networks filtering bogus BGP routes. Systems interact with the RPKI over Relying Party (RP) implementations that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Donika Mirdita , 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

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 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 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

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

With the rapid evolution of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the boundaries and scale of the Internet are continuously expanding. Consequently, the limitations of traditional certificate-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Penghui Liu , Yi Niu , Xiaoxiong Zhong , Jiahui Wu , Weizhe Zhang , Kaiping Xue , Bin Xiao

Public key infrastructures (PKIs) are one of the main building blocks for securing communications over the Internet. Currently, PKIs are under the control of centralized authorities, which is problematic as evidenced by numerous incidents…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-05 Christos Patsonakis , Katerina Samari , Aggelos Kiayias , Mema Roussopoulos

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

Web content delivery is one of the most important services on the Internet. Access to websites is typically secured via TLS. However, this security model does not account for prefix hijacking on the network layer, which may lead to traffic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-03 Matthias Wählisch , Robert Schmidt , Thomas C. Schmidt , Olaf Maennel , Steve Uhlig , Gareth Tyson

With real-time certificate validation checking, a public-key-using system that needs to validate a certificate executes a transaction with a specialized validation party. At the end of the transaction the validation party returns an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Diana Berbecaru , Antonio Lioy

This research investigates the potential use of a blockchain-based Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) within an organization and compares it to conventional PKI systems. The goal is to assess the advantages and disadvantages of both approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Julian Springer , Philipp Haindl

The Public Key Infrastructure existed in critical infrastructure systems since the expansion of the World Wide Web, but to this day its limitations have not been completely solved. With the rise of government-driven digital identity in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Adrian-Tudor Dumitrescu , Johan Pouwelse

The non-repudiation as an essential requirement of many applications can be provided by the asymmetric key model. With the evolution of new applications such as mobile commerce, it is essential to provide secure and efficient solutions for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-20 M. Toorani , A. A. Beheshti

In this work, we present a novel severe buffer-overflow vulnerability in the RPKI validator Fort, that allows an attacker to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the machine running the software. We discuss the unique impact of this RCE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Oliver Jacobsen , Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel , Michael Waidner

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
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