International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Vol 13, No 6: December 2023

A novel deep-learning based approach to DNS over HTTPS network traffic detection

Fesl, Jan (Unknown)
Konopa, Michal (Unknown)
Jelínek, Jiří (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2023

Abstract

Domain name system (DNS) over hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS) (DoH) is currently a new standard for secure communication between DNS servers and end-users. Secure sockets layer (SSL)/transport layer security (TLS) encryption should guarantee the user a high level of privacy regarding the impossibility of data content decryption and protocol identification. Our team created a DoH data set from captured real network traffic and proposed novel deep-learning-based detection models allowing encrypted DoH traffic identification. Our detection models were trained on the network traffic from the Czech top-level domain maintainer, Czech network interchange center (CZ.NIC), and successfully applied to the identification of the DoH traffic from Cloudflare. The reached detection model accuracy was near 95%, and it is clear that the encryption does not prohibit the DoH protocol identification.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJECE

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Description

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of ...