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Audrey Randall

Based in San Diego, CA, USA

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Based in San Diego, CA, USA

Audrey Randall is a PhD student at University of California San Diego studying Internet measurement and security. Her interests include privacy issues with DNS and the use of DNS as a measurement tool for Internet threats such as stalkerware.

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Website: https://audrey-randall.github.io/

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Trufflehunter: A New Tool to Sniff Out DNS Usage

Audrey Randall

• 22 Mar 2021

• 4 min read

Measuring domain usage on centralised public DNS resolvers can be very useful, but it's also pretty hard to do. Trufflehunter is a new open source tool that puts snooping techniques to good use in order to accurately estimate the popularity of domains.