Domain Decoupling Attack: Exploiting the Validation Gap Between Protective DNS and Shared Edge Routing

arXiv:2608.00643 · cs.CR, cs.NI · Submitted 2026-08-01 · Read on arXiv

Weizhe Wang, Minhong Dong, Jinhao Li, Yao Zhang, Hao Liu, Qiang Hu, Tao Luo, Guangquan Xu, Bin Wu

cs.CR, cs.NI

Submitted: 2026-08-01

Code: https://github.com/zeek/zeek

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Verification — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 8× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Domain Decoupling Attack — 7× in this paper
• APEX — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Detecting and Measuring Security Implications of Entangled Domain Verification in CDN
• Domain Name Encryption Is Not Enough: Privacy Leakage via IP-based Website Fingerprinting

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