Daniel Kaiser, Andreas Rain, Marcel Waldvogel, Holger Strittmatter: A Multicast-Avoiding Privacy Extension for the Avahi Zeroconf Daemon. In: NetSys 2015, Gesellschaft für Informatik, 2015.

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Abstract

In today’s local networks, a significant amount of traffic is caused by Multicast packets, such as Multicast DNS Service Discovery (mDNS-SD), a widespread technique used for configurationless service distribution and discovery. It suffers from two major problems inherent in multicast: privacy and network load. We present a privacy extension for the Avahi Zeroconf Daemon that tackles both problems while being very efficient.

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@inproceedings{Kaiser2015Multicast-avoiding,
title = {A Multicast-Avoiding Privacy Extension for the Avahi Zeroconf Daemon},
author = {Daniel Kaiser and Andreas Rain and Marcel Waldvogel and Holger Strittmatter},
url = {https://netfuture.ch/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/kaiser2015multicast-avoiding.pdf
https://netfuture.ch/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/mdns-security-poster.pdf},
year  = {2015},
date = {2015-03-10},
urldate = {1000-01-01},
booktitle = {NetSys 2015},
publisher = {Gesellschaft für Informatik},
abstract = {In today’s local networks, a significant amount of traffic is caused by Multicast packets, such as Multicast DNS Service Discovery (mDNS-SD), a widespread technique used for configurationless service distribution and discovery. It suffers from two major problems inherent in multicast: privacy and network load. We present a privacy extension for the Avahi Zeroconf Daemon that tackles both problems while being very efficient.},
keywords = {DNS-SD, Privacy, Security, Zeroconf},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}