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20152022
most citedTracking the Trackers: Towards Understanding the Mobile Advertising and Tracking Ecosystem

54 citations · 172 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.NI2022★ 1 cited

Measuring the Accessibility of Domain Name Encryption and Its Impact on Internet Filtering

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Michalis Polychronakis, Phillipa Gill

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 une…

cs.CR2021★ 12 cited

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

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Jakub Dalek +6

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…

cs.CR2021

Domain Name Encryption Is Not Enough: Privacy Leakage via IP-based Website Fingerprinting

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Phillipa Gill +1

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 positive i…

cs.NI2020

The Web is Still Small After More Than a Decade

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Michalis Polychronakis +1

Understanding web co-location is essential for various reasons. For instance, it can help one to assess the collateral damage that denial-of-service attacks or IP-based blocking ca…

cs.CR2019★ 19 cited

Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption

Nguyen Phong Hoang, Arian Akhavan Niaki, Nikita Borisov +2

As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet communication to be observed, the use of network traffic encryption technologies (e.g., HTTPS/TLS) i…

cs.CR2019

ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform

Arian Akhavan Niaki, Shinyoung Cho, Zachary Weinberg +4

Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have however been limited to a short period of time an…