4 papers
Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
Lucianna Kiffer, Lioba Heimbach, Dennis Trautwein +2
Blockchain technologies underpin an expanding ecosystem of decentralized applications, financial systems, and infrastructure. However, the fundamental networking layer that sustain…
Unveiling IPv6 Scanning Dynamics: A Longitudinal Study Using Large Scale Proactive and Passive IPv6 Telescopes
Hammas Bin Tanveer, Wai Sun Chan, Ricky K. P. Mok +6
We introduce new tools and vantage points to develop and integrate proactive techniques to attract IPv6 scan traffic, thus enabling its analysis. By deploying the largest-ever IPv6…
Sibling Prefixes: Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes
Fariba Osali, Khwaja Zubair Sediqi, Oliver Gasser
Since the standardization of IPv6 in 1998, both versions of the Internet Protocol have coexisted in the Internet. Clients usually run algorithms such as Happy Eyeballs, to decide w…
ECSeptional DNS Data: Evaluating Nameserver ECS Deployments with Response-Aware Scanning
Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Fahad Hilal +4
DNS is one of the cornerstones of the Internet. Nowadays, a substantial fraction of DNS queries are handled by public resolvers (e.g., Google Public DNS and Cisco's OpenDNS) rather…