KeyTrap Algorithmic Complexity Attacks Exploit Fundamental Design Flaw in DNSSEC
Dr. Haya Schulmann is Professor for computer science at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. She is also a board member of ATHENE and a head of the research area Analytics-based Cybersecurity in the national research centre ATHENE. More
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KeyTrap - described by some as 'the worst attack on DNS ever discovered' - is capable of exhausting CPU resources and stalling widely used DNS implementations and public DNS providers, like Google Public DNS and Cloudflare. The research team from ATHENE explain how they discovered the attack.