Computer Science > Cryptography and Security
[Submitted on 3 Dec 2022 (v1), last revised 15 Dec 2022 (this version, v2)]
Title:It Is Not Where You Are, It Is Where You Are Registered: IoT Location Impact
View PDFAbstract:This paper investigates how and with whom IoT devices communicate and how their location affects their communication patterns. Specifically, the endpoints an IoT device communicates with can be defined as a small set of domains. To study how the location of the device affects its domain set, we distinguish between the location based on its IP address and the location defined by the user when registering the device. We show, unlike common wisdom, that IP-based location has little to no effect on the set of domains, while the user-defined location changes the set significantly. Unlike common approaches to resolving domains to IP addresses at close-by geo-locations (such as anycast), we present a distinctive way to use the ECS field of EDNS to achieve the same differentiation between user-defined locations. Our solution streamlines the network design of IoT manufacturers and makes it easier for security appliances to monitor IoT traffic. Finally, we show that with one domain for all locations, one can achieve succinct descriptions of the traffic of the IoT device across the globe. We will discuss the implications of such description on security appliances and specifically, on the ones using the Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) framework.
Submission history
From: Bar Meyuhas [view email][v1] Sat, 3 Dec 2022 12:00:31 UTC (35,434 KB)
[v2] Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:43:16 UTC (35,434 KB)
References & Citations
Bibliographic and Citation Tools
Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?)
Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?)
Litmaps (What is Litmaps?)
scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?)
Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article
alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?)
CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?)
DagsHub (What is DagsHub?)
Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?)
Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?)
Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?)
ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?)
Demos
Recommenders and Search Tools
Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?)
CORE Recommender (What is CORE?)
arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.
Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.
Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.