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A Longitudinal Analysis of .i2p Leakage in the Public DNS Infrastructure

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Aziz MohaisenAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCOMM '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference

Pages 557 - 558

https://doi.org/10.1145/2934872.2960423

Published: 22 August 2016 Publication History

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The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is an overlay network that provides secure and anonymous communication channels. EepSites are the anonymous websites hosted in the I2P network. To access the eepSites, DNS requests of a domain name suffixed with the {\sf .i2p} pseudo top-level domain (TLD) are routed within the I2P network. However, not only that {\sf .i2p} queries are leaking in the public DNS infrastructure, but also such leakage has various plausible root causes and implications that are different from other related leakage. In this paper, we analyze the leaked {\sf .i2p} requests captured in the A and J root name servers of the public DNS, showing that a large number of queries are observed and outlining various potential directions of addressing such leakage.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3278532.3278565
Mohaisen AKang ARen K(2017)Does Query Blocking Improve DNS Privacy?Information Security Applications10.1007/978-3-319-56549-1_1(1-14)Online publication date: 30-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56549-1_1

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A Longitudinal Analysis of .i2p Leakage in the Public DNS Infrastructure
1. Networks
  1. Network architectures
    1. Network design principles
      1. Naming and addressing
  2. Network properties
    1. Network privacy and anonymity

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SIGCOMM '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGCOMM Conference

August 2016

645 pages

ISBN:9781450341936

DOI:10.1145/2934872

General Chairs:
Marinho Barcellos
UFRGS
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Jon Crowcroft
University of Cambridge
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Amin Vahdat
Google
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Sachin Katti
Stanford University

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Hoang NKintis PAntonakakis MPolychronakis M(2018)An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship ResistanceProceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 201810.1145/3278532.3278565(379-392)Online publication date: 31-Oct-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3278532.3278565
Mohaisen AKang ARen K(2017)Does Query Blocking Improve DNS Privacy?Information Security Applications10.1007/978-3-319-56549-1_1(1-14)Online publication date: 30-Mar-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56549-1_1

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