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At the TUD Chair of Distributed and Networked Systems, we are committed to improve the Internet. Therefore, we operate and maintain relevant research infrastructure. We now host two more external, active Internet measurement probes, a RIPE Atlas Anchor and an USC LightScope probe.

Our paper "A Call to Reconsider Certification Authority Authorization" has been pubished in IEEE Security & Privacy. Certification Authority Authentication (CAA) is a safeguard against illegitimate certificate issuance. We show how shortcomings in CAA concepts and operational aspects undermine …

At the 39th Chaos Communication Congress, Mikolai Gütschow presented lessons learned from deploying GNU Taler at Datenspuren 2025 and LUG Camp 2024. heise online reports about his presentation here. You can access the recording of the presentation at media.ccc.de.

Our papers "Scanning the IPv6 Internet Using Subnet-Router Anycast Probing" and "Waiting for QUIC: Passive Measurements to Understand QUIC Deployments" have been accepted at the 21th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (ACM CoNEXT). Overall, we will …

Our paper "The SAP Cloud Infrastructure Dataset: A Reality Check of Scheduling and Placement of VMs in Cloud Computing" has been accepted at the 25th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC). ACM IMC is a highly selective venue for the presentation of measurement-based research in data …

At this year's Datenspuren, we provided on-site payment with GNU Taler and contributed talks and a RIOT hands-on tutorial. Happy to support such an important event that informs about technical and non-technical aspects of IT systems. You can read more about this on page 6 of the Faculty Newsletter (only in …

Our paper "Forward to Hell? On the Potentials of Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders in Reflective Amplification Attacks" has been accepted at the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). ACM CCS is the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on …

"The Internet is open -- that is its greatest strength and weakness," says Prof. Wählisch in an interview with the daily newspaper Sächsische Zeitung. He explains why the Internet is so fascinating, which challenges we face, and how TUD researchers are contributing to overcome some of these …

PhD student Maynard Koch has received a RACI Grant to present our work on DNS measuremetns at RIPE 91 and an ACM SIGCOMM Travel Grant to present our research about IPv6 network telescopes at the SIGCOMM conference. Thanks to RIPE and ACM SIGCOMM for the support!