Securing Name Resolution in the IoT: DNS over CoAP

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and analysis of DNS over CoAP~(DoC), a new proposal for secure and privacy-friendly name resolution of constrained IoT devices. We implement different design choices of DoC in RIOT, an open-source operating system for the IoT, evaluate performance measures in a testbed, compare with DNS over UDP and DNS over DTLS, and validate our protocol design based on empirical DNS IoT data. Our findings indicate that plain DoC is on par with common DNS solutions for the constrained IoT but significantly outperforms when additional standard features of CoAP are used such as caching. With OSCORE, we can save more than 10 kBytes of code memory compared to DTLS, when a CoAP application is already present, and retain the end-to-end trust chain with intermediate proxies, while leveraging features such as group communication or encrypted en-route caching. We also discuss a compression scheme for very restricted links that reduces data by up to 70%.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number6
Number of pages25
JournalProceedings of the ACM on Networking
Volume1
Issue numberCONEXT2
Publication statusPublished - Sept 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

TitleACM 19th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies
Abbreviated titleCoNEXT 2023
Conference number19
Duration5 - 8 December 2023
Website
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationConservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM)
CityParis
CountryFrance

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ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/143782588

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