Cloud provider connectivity in the flat internet

T Arnold, J He, W Jiang, M Calder, I Cunha… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The Tier-1 ISPs have been considered the Internet's backbone since the dawn of the
modern Internet 30 years ago, as they guarantee global reachability. However, their …

How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's {DNS} Censorship

NP Hoang, AA Niaki, J Dalek, J Knockel, P Lin… - 30th USENIX Security …, 2021 - usenix.org
The DNS filtering apparatus of China's Great Firewall (GFW) has evolved considerably over
the past two decades. However, most prior studies of China's DNS filtering were performed …

Analyzing third party service dependencies in modern web services: Have we learned from the mirai-dyn incident?

A Kashaf, V Sekar, Y Agarwal - Proceedings of the ACM Internet …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Many websites rely on third parties for services (eg, DNS, CDN, etc.). However, it also
exposes them to shared risks from attacks (eg, Mirai DDoS attack [24]) or cascading failures …

An empirical view on consolidation of the web

TV Doan, R van Rijswijk-Deij, O Hohlfeld… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The majority of Web content is delivered by only a few companies that provide Content
Delivery Infrastructuress (CDIss) such as Content Delivery Networkss (CDNss) and cloud …

Domain name encryption is not enough: Privacy leakage via IP-based website fingerprinting

NP Hoang, AA Niaki, P Gill, M Polychronakis - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

The Ties that un-Bind: Decoupling IP from web services and sockets for robust addressing agility at CDN-scale

M Fayed, L Bauer, V Giotsas, S Kerola… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
The couplings between IP addresses, names of content or services, and socket interfaces,
are too tight. This impedes system manageability, growth, and overall provisioning. In turn …

Assessing the privacy benefits of domain name encryption

NP Hoang, A Akhavan Niaki, N Borisov, P Gill… - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet
communication to be observed, the use of network traffic encryption technologies (eg …

Evaluating practical QUIC website fingerprinting defenses for the masses

S Siby, L Barman, C Wood… - Proceedings …, 2023 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
Website fingerprinting (WF) is a well-known threat to users' web privacy. New Internet
standards, such as QUIC, include padding to support defenses against WF. Previous work …

Measuring the accessibility of domain name encryption and its impact on internet filtering

NP Hoang, M Polychronakis, P Gill - International Conference on Passive …, 2022 - Springer
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 …

Augmenting rule-based dns censorship detection at scale with machine learning

J Brown, X Jiang, V Tran, AN Bhagoji… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The proliferation of global censorship has led to the development of a plethora of
measurement platforms to monitor and expose it. Censorship of the domain name system …