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most citedForward to Hell? On the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks

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cs.CR2026

Secrets Best Not Shared: DNS Privacy Enhancements for the Constrained IoT

Martine S. Lenders, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch

Attackers often identify DNS traffic to disrupt or compromise Internet services. While prior work has focused on encrypting queries using DNS over TLS, HTTPS, or QUIC to counter su…

cs.LG2026

Contrastive Learning and Correlation Clustering for Sequences of Network Telescope Data

Jannik Presberger, Alexander Männel, Maynard Koch +3

Understanding activities of Internet scanners is challenging; it often requires identifying relationships between sources, a task for which semantic annotations are scarce. This wo…

cs.NI2026

LZn : Robust LoRa Frame Synchronization Under Frame Collisions and Ultra-Low SNR Conditions

José Álamos, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch

LoRa has become a widely adopted wireless modulation scheme in LPWANs due to its low cost, long range, and minimal transmission power. However, collisions between frames of the sam…

cs.NI2025★ 1 cited

A Leaner and Faster Web: How CBOR Can Improve Dynamic Content Encoding in JSON and DNS over HTTPS

Martine S. Lenders, Carsten Bormann, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

The Internet community has taken major efforts to decrease latency on the World Wide Web with significant improvements in accelerating content transport and in compressing static c…

cs.NI2025

Scanning the IPv6 Internet Using Subnet-Router Anycast Probing

Maynard Koch, Raphael Hiesgen, Marcin Nawrocki +2

Identifying active IPv6 addresses is challenging. Various methods emerged to master the measurement challenge in this huge address space, including hitlists, new probing techniques…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

Forward to Hell? On the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks

Maynard Koch, Florian Dolzmann, Thomas C. Schmidt +1

The DNS infrastructure is infamous for facilitating reflective amplification attacks. Various countermeasures such as server shielding, access control, rate limiting, and protocol…

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Waiting for QUIC: Passive Measurements to Understand QUIC Deployments

Jonas Mücke, Marcin Nawrocki, Raphael Hiesgen +6

QUIC experiences a rapid adoption since its standardization in 2021, and hypergiants configure their infrastructure to optimize for QUIC performance. In this paper, we introduce a…