Oliver Gasser

Selected publications

ECSeptional DNS Data: Evaluating Nameserver ECS Deployments with Response-Aware Scanning

Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Fahad Hilal, Oliver Gasser, Kevin Vermeulen, Georg Carle, Mattijs Jonker

ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2025

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Sibling Prefixes: Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes

Fariba Osali, Khwaja Zubair Sediqi, Oliver Gasser

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2025

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Intractable Cookie Crumbs: Unveiling the Nexus of Stateful Banner Interaction and Tracking Cookies

Ali Rasaii, Ha Dao, Anja Feldmann, Mohammadmahdi Javid, Oliver Gasser, Devashish Gosain

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2025

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2024

A First Look At IPv6 Hypergiant Infrastructure

Fahad Hilal, Patrick Sattler, Kevin Vermeulen, Oliver Gasser

ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2024

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Kirin: Hitting the Internet with Distributed BGP Announcements

Lars Prehn, Pawel Formeski, Oliver Gasser

ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2024

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A First Look At NAT64 Deployment In-The-Wild

Amanda Hsu, Frank Li, Paul Pearce, Oliver Gasser

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2024

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2023

Packed to the Brim: Investigating the Impact of Highly Responsive Prefixes on Internet-wide Measurement Campaigns

Patrick Sattler, Johannes Zirngibl, Mattijs Jonker, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz

ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2023

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Yarrpbox: Detecting Middleboxes at Internet-Scale

Fahad Hilal, Oliver Gasser

ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2023 🏆 Community Contribution Award

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Thou Shalt Not Reject: Analyzing Accept-Or-Pay Cookie Banners on the Web

Ali Rasaii, Devashish Gosain, Oliver Gasser

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

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Illuminating Router Vendor Diversity Within Providers and Along Network Paths

Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Robert Beverly, Georgios Smaragdakis

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

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Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit

Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Georgios Smaragdakis

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

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Fifteen Months in the Life of a Honeyfarm

Cristian Munteanu, Said Jawad Saidi, Oliver Gasser, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2023

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Enabling Multi-hop ISP-Hypergiant Collaboration

Cristian Munteanu, Oliver Gasser, Ingmar Poese, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann

Applied Networking Research Workshop 2023

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Analyzing IoT Hosts in the IPv6 Internet

Peter Jose, Said Jawad Saidi, Oliver Gasser

arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.09918

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Target Acquired? Evaluating Target Generation Algorithms for IPv6

Lion Steger, Liming Kuang, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, Oliver Gasser

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2023 🏆 Best Paper Award

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Live Long and Prosper: Analyzing Long-Lived MOAS Prefixes in BGP

Khwaja Zubair Sediqi, Anja Feldmann, Oliver Gasser

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2023 🏆 Fast Track Award

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How Ready Is DNS for an IPv6-Only World?

Florian Streibelt, Patrick Sattler, Franziska Lichtblau, Carlos H. Gañán, Anja Feldmann, Oliver Gasser, Tobias Fiebig

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2023 🏆 Best Paper Award

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Characterizing the VPN Ecosystem in the Wild

Aniss Maghsoudlou, Lukas Vermeulen, Ingmar Poese, Oliver Gasser

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2023

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Exploring the Cookieverse: A Multi-Perspective Analysis of Web Cookies

Ali Rasaii, Shivani Singh, Devashish Gosain, Oliver Gasser

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2023

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2022

FlowDNS: Correlating Netflow and DNS Streams at Scale

Aniss Maghsoudlou, Oliver Gasser, Ingmar Poese, Anja Feldmann

ACM Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies 2022

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Illuminating Large-Scale IPv6 Scanning in the Internet

Philipp Richter, Oliver Gasser, Arthur Berger

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022

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Deep Dive into the IoT Backend Ecosystem

Said Jawad Saidi, Srdjan Matic, Oliver Gasser, Georgios Smaragdakis, Anja Feldmann

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022

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Rusty Clusters? Dusting an IPv6 Research Foundation

Johannes Zirngibl, Lion Steger, Patrick Sattler, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2022

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Hyper-Specific Prefixes: Gotta Enjoy the Little Things in Interdomain Routing

Khwaja Zubair Sediqi, Lars Prehn, Oliver Gasser

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 52, Issue 2

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One Bad Apple Can Spoil Your IPv6 Privacy

Said Jawad Saidi, Oliver Gasser, Georgios Smaragdakis

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 52, Issue 2

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SRv6: Is There Anybody Out There?

Victor-Alexandru Pădurean, Oliver Gasser, Randy Bush, Anja Feldmann

International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity 2022

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A Longitudinal View at the Adoption of Multipath TCP

Tanya Shreedhar, Danesh Zeynali, Oliver Gasser, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott

arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.12138

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2021

Third Time's Not a Charm: Exploiting SNMPv3 for Router Fingerprinting

Taha Albakour, Oliver Gasser, Robert Beverly, Georgios Smaragdakis

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2021

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A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic

Anja Feldmann, Oliver Gasser, Franziska Lichtblau, Enric Pujol, Ingmar Poese, Christoph Dietzel, Daniel Wagner, Matthias Wichtlhuber, Juan Tapiador, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Oliver Hohlfeld, Georgios Smaragdakis

Communications of the ACM Research Highlights, Volume 64, Issue 7

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From Single Lane to Highways: Analyzing the Adoption of Multipath TCP in the Internet

Florian Aschenbrenner, Tanya Shreedhar, Oliver Gasser, Nitinder Mohan, Jörg Ott

IFIP Networking Conference 2021

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Zeroing in on Port 0 Traffic in the Wild

Aniss Maghsoudlou, Oliver Gasser, Anja Feldmann

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2021

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Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Internet Traffic

VDE ITG Symposium on Broadband Coverage in Germany 2021

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2020

A view of Internet Traffic Shifts at ISP and IXPs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

COVID-19 IAB Network Impacts Workshop 2020

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The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2020

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Reserved: Dissecting Internet Traffic on Port 0

Aniss Maghsoudlou, Oliver Gasser, Anja Feldmann

arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03653

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2019

Prefix Top Lists: Gaining Insights with Prefixes from Domain-based Top Lists on DNS Deployment

Johannes Naab, Patrick Sattler, Jonas Jelten, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019

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DNS Observatory: The Big Picture of the DNS

Pawel Foremski, Oliver Gasser, Giovane C.M. Moura

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2019

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Evaluating Network Security Using Internet-wide Measurements

Oliver Gasser

Ph.D. thesis at the Technical University of Munich 2019

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2018

The Rise of Certificate Transparency and Its Implications on the Internet Ecosystem

Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Theodor Nolte, Johanna Amann, Lexi Brent, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz, Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018

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Clusters in the Expanse: Understanding and Unbiasing IPv6 Hitlists

Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Pawel Foremski, Qasim Lone, Maciej Korczynski, Stephen D. Strowes, Luuk Hendriks, Georg Carle

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018

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Measuring Adoption of Security Additions to the HTTPS Ecosystem

Quirin Scheitle, Taejoong Chung, Johanna Amann, Oliver Gasser, Lexi Brent, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz, Jens Hiller, Johannes Naab, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Oliver Hohlfeld, Dave Choffnes, Alan Mislove

Applied Networking Research Workshop 2018

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A First Look at Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)

Quirin Scheitle, Taejoong Chung, Jens Hiller, Oliver Gasser, Johannes Naab, Roland van Rijswijk-Deij, Oliver Hohlfeld, Ralph Holz, Dave Choffnes, Alan Mislove, Georg Carle

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 48, Issue 2

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In Log We Trust: Revealing Poor Security Practices with Certificate Transparency Logs and Internet Measurements

Oliver Gasser, Benjamin Hof, Max Helm, Maciej Korczynski, Ralph Holz, Georg Carle

Passive and Active Measurement Conference 2018 🏆 Best Paper Award

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2017

Opportunities and Challenges of Ad-based Measurements from the Edge of the Network

Patricia Callejo, Conor Kelton, Narseo Vallina-Rodriguez, Rubén Cuevas, Oliver Gasser, Christian Kreibich, Florian Wohlfart, Ángel Cuevas

ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks 2017

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The Amplification Threat Posed by Publicly Reachable BACnet Devices

Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Benedikt Rudolph, Carl Denis, Nadja Schricker, Georg Carle

Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility, Volume 6, Issue 1

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Mission Accomplished? HTTPS Security after DigiNotar

Johanna Amann, Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Lexi Brent, Georg Carle, Ralph Holz

ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2017 🏆 Community Contribution Award & IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize

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Towards an Ecosystem for Reproducible Research in Computer Networking

Quirin Scheitle, Matthias Wählisch, Oliver Gasser, Thomas C. Schmidt, Georg Carle

ACM SIGCOMM Reproducibility Workshop 2017

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HLOC: Hints-based Geolocation Leveraging Multiple Measurement Frameworks

Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Patrick Sattler, Georg Carle

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2017 🏆 Best Dataset Award

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Large-Scale Classification of IPv6-IPv4 Siblings with Variable Clock Skew

Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Minoo Rouhi, Georg Carle

Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference 2017

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Security Implications of Publicly Reachable Building Automation Systems

Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Carl Denis, Nadja Schricker, Georg Carle

International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity 2017

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Download paper: Öffentlich erreichbare Gebäudeautomatisierung: Amplification-Anfälligkeit von BACnet und Deployment-Analyse im Internet und DFN

Öffentlich erreichbare Gebäudeautomatisierung: Amplification-Anfälligkeit von BACnet und Deployment-Analyse im Internet und DFN

Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Carl Denis, Nadja Schricker, Georg Carle

DFN-Konferenz Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen 2017

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2016

Carrier-Grade Anomaly Detection Using Time-to-Live Header Information

Quirin Scheitle, Oliver Gasser, Paul Emmerich, Georg Carle

arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.07613

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Scanning the IPv6 Internet: Towards a Comprehensive Hitlist

Oliver Gasser, Quirin Scheitle, Sebastian Gebhard, Georg Carle

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop 2016

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Digging for Dark IPMI Devices: Advancing BMC Detection and Evaluating Operational Security

Oliver Gasser, Felix Emmert, Georg Carle

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop 2016

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2015

DoS Amplification Attacks – Protocol-Agnostic Detection of Service Abuse in Amplifier Networks

Timm Böttger, Lothar Braun, Oliver Gasser, Felix von Eye, Helmut Reiser, Georg Carle

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop 2015

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Investigating the Nature of Routing Anomalies: Closing in on Subprefix Hijacking Attacks

Johann Schlamp, Ralph Holz, Oliver Gasser, Andreas Korsten, Quentin Jacquemart, Georg Carle, Ernst W. Biersack

Traffic Monitoring and Analysis Workshop 2015 🏆 Best Paper Award

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Detektion und Prävention von Denial-of-Service Amplification Attacken – Schutz des Netzes aus Sicht eines Amplifiers

Felix von Eye, Timm Böttger, Helmut Reiser, Lothar Braun, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle

DFN-Konferenz Sicherheit in vernetzten Systemen 2015

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2014

A deeper understanding of SSH: Results from Internet-wide scans

Oliver Gasser, Ralph Holz, Georg Carle

IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2014

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Selected publications

ECSeptional DNS Data: Evaluating Nameserver ECS Deployments with Response-Aware Scanning

Sibling Prefixes: Identifying Similarities in IPv4 and IPv6 Prefixes

Intractable Cookie Crumbs: Unveiling the Nexus of Stateful Banner Interaction and Tracking Cookies

A First Look At IPv6 Hypergiant Infrastructure

Kirin: Hitting the Internet with Distributed BGP Announcements

A First Look At NAT64 Deployment In-The-Wild

Packed to the Brim: Investigating the Impact of Highly Responsive Prefixes on Internet-wide Measurement Campaigns

Yarrpbox: Detecting Middleboxes at Internet-Scale

Thou Shalt Not Reject: Analyzing Accept-Or-Pay Cookie Banners on the Web

Illuminating Router Vendor Diversity Within Providers and Along Network Paths

Pushing Alias Resolution to the Limit

Fifteen Months in the Life of a Honeyfarm

Enabling Multi-hop ISP-Hypergiant Collaboration

Analyzing IoT Hosts in the IPv6 Internet

Target Acquired? Evaluating Target Generation Algorithms for IPv6

Live Long and Prosper: Analyzing Long-Lived MOAS Prefixes in BGP

How Ready Is DNS for an IPv6-Only World?

Characterizing the VPN Ecosystem in the Wild

Exploring the Cookieverse: A Multi-Perspective Analysis of Web Cookies

FlowDNS: Correlating Netflow and DNS Streams at Scale

Illuminating Large-Scale IPv6 Scanning in the Internet

Deep Dive into the IoT Backend Ecosystem

Rusty Clusters? Dusting an IPv6 Research Foundation

Hyper-Specific Prefixes: Gotta Enjoy the Little Things in Interdomain Routing

One Bad Apple Can Spoil Your IPv6 Privacy

SRv6: Is There Anybody Out There?

A Longitudinal View at the Adoption of Multipath TCP

Third Time's Not a Charm: Exploiting SNMPv3 for Router Fingerprinting

A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic

From Single Lane to Highways: Analyzing the Adoption of Multipath TCP in the Internet

Zeroing in on Port 0 Traffic in the Wild

Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Internet Traffic

A view of Internet Traffic Shifts at ISP and IXPs during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Lockdown Effect: Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Internet Traffic

Reserved: Dissecting Internet Traffic on Port 0

Prefix Top Lists: Gaining Insights with Prefixes from Domain-based Top Lists on DNS Deployment

DNS Observatory: The Big Picture of the DNS

Evaluating Network Security Using Internet-wide Measurements

The Rise of Certificate Transparency and Its Implications on the Internet Ecosystem

Clusters in the Expanse: Understanding and Unbiasing IPv6 Hitlists

Measuring Adoption of Security Additions to the HTTPS Ecosystem

A First Look at Certification Authority Authorization (CAA)

In Log We Trust: Revealing Poor Security Practices with Certificate Transparency Logs and Internet Measurements

Opportunities and Challenges of Ad-based Measurements from the Edge of the Network

The Amplification Threat Posed by Publicly Reachable BACnet Devices

Mission Accomplished? HTTPS Security after DigiNotar

Towards an Ecosystem for Reproducible Research in Computer Networking

HLOC: Hints-based Geolocation Leveraging Multiple Measurement Frameworks

Large-Scale Classification of IPv6-IPv4 Siblings with Variable Clock Skew

Security Implications of Publicly Reachable Building Automation Systems

Öffentlich erreichbare Gebäudeautomatisierung: Amplification-Anfälligkeit von BACnet und Deployment-Analyse im Internet und DFN

Carrier-Grade Anomaly Detection Using Time-to-Live Header Information

Scanning the IPv6 Internet: Towards a Comprehensive Hitlist

Digging for Dark IPMI Devices: Advancing BMC Detection and Evaluating Operational Security

DoS Amplification Attacks – Protocol-Agnostic Detection of Service Abuse in Amplifier Networks

Investigating the Nature of Routing Anomalies: Closing in on Subprefix Hijacking Attacks

Detektion und Prävention von Denial-of-Service Amplification Attacken – Schutz des Netzes aus Sicht eines Amplifiers

A deeper understanding of SSH: Results from Internet-wide scans

Awards

CoNEXT 2023 Community Contribution Award

TMA 2023 Best Paper Award

TMA 2023 Fast Track Award

PAM 2023 Best Paper Award

PAM 2018 Best Paper Award

IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize 2018

IMC 2017 Community Contribution Award

TMA 2017 Best Dataset Award

Measurement services

IPv6 Hitlist Service

SNMPv3 Measurement Service

MPTCP Measurement Service

Hyper-specific Prefixes Measurement Service

DNS Observatory

Prefix Toplist

Port 0 Measurement Service

Community service

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