Large Scale Measurement on the Adoption of Encrypted DNS
Large Scale Measurement on the Adoption of Encrypted DNS
Several encryption proposals for DNS have been presented since 2016, but their adoption was not comprehensively studied yet. This research measured the current adoption of DoH (DNS over HTTPS), DoT (DNS over TLS), and DoQ (DNS over QUIC) for five months at the beginning of 2021 by three different organizations with global coverage. By comparing the total values, amount of requests per user, and the seasonality of the traffic, it was possible to obtain the current adoption trends. Moreover, we actively scanned the Internet for still-unknown working DoH servers and we compared them with a novel curated list of well-known DoH servers. We conclude that despite growing in 2020, during the first five months of 2021 there was statistically significant evidence that the average amount of Internet traffic for DoH, DoT and DoQ remained stationary. However, we found that the amount of, still unknown and ready to use, DoH servers grew 4 times. These measurements suggest that even though the amount of encrypted DNS is currently not growing, there may probably be more connections soon to those unknown DoH servers for benign and malicious purposes.
16 pages, 10 figures
- Czech Education and Scientific Net work Czech Republic
Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture, Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, C.2.2, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, C.2.0, C.2.0; C.2.2, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
Computer Science - Networking and Internet Architecture, Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, C.2.2, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, C.2.0, C.2.0; C.2.2, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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