Measurements and Statistics

Stalloris: RPKI Downgrade Attack

Haya Schulmann

• 6 Jul 2022

• 6 min read

Our research considers the impact of malicious publication points on the resilience of RPKI. We explored attacks that target the functionality of the relying party implementations and evaluated the resulting impact on the RPKI validation. We found all the relying party implementations to be vulnera…

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Dealing with the Undercurrent of Unwanted Traffic

Leslie Daigle

• 5 Jul 2022

• 6 min read

It’s common knowledge that there are “bad actors” on the Internet, poking and prodding open ports as they find them. But just how much of this “unwanted traffic” is out there, and how much is “too much” to allow out of a source network?

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IPv6 10 Years Out: An Analysis in Users, Tables, and Traffic

Rene Wilhelm

• 30 Jun 2022

• 12 min read

On 6 June 2012, the Internet Society organised the World IPv6 Launch. On that day, participants switched on IPv6 not just for testing, but to use permanently in production services. As ten years have passed since, we look at how IPv6 adoption and deployment has progressed, in terms of routing, end-…

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Pavlos Sermpezis: Revealing Bias in Internet Measurements

Alun Davies

• 29 Jun 2022

• 2 min read

Internet measurement platforms give us a clearer understanding of the state of the Internet. But none of these platforms gives us a ‘view from everywhere’, so that understanding will always be based on a partial and potentially biased view of things. In this episode, Pavlos Sermpezis talks about th…

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RightsCon - Join the Discussion on Digital Rights

Gergana Petrova

• 23 Jun 2022

• 12 min read

RightsCon is one of the most established forums for human rights in the digital age. In this article, we give you a taste of some of the issues discussed and hopefully involve you in the debate. We definitely need more voices from the technical community!

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An Introduction to IRR Explorer

Teun Vink

• 19 May 2022

• 9 min read

In this article we take a look at how IRR explorer can be used to analyse and improve routing, IRR registrations, and RPKI configurations by looking at a number of real world examples.

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Robert Kisteleki: RIPE Atlas - A Distributed View of the Internet

Alun Davies

• 17 May 2022

• 2 min read

Twelve years ago the RIPE NCC set out to build the largest Internet measurement network ever made. Today, RIPE Atlas provides users with an unprecedented understanding of the state of the Internet in real time. In this episode, I catch up with Robert Kisteleki to talk about how RIPE Atlas developed…

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The Curious Case of Packets From ::

Robert Kisteleki

• 16 May 2022

• 10 min read

RIPE Atlas has a large enough footprint all over the world to observe various kinds of network behaviour. Recently we've been notified about a case where the IPv6 source address ::/128 appeared in some of our traceroutes. We set out to discover why this happens.