Collected research

DNS Prefetching and Its Privacy Implications: When Good Things Go Bad

Fabian Monrose and Srinivas Krishnan · usenix.org

Browsers pre-resolve every link on a result page, stamping a burst of same-age records into the resolver cache. The authors cluster cache entries by age, tokenise the domains and feed them to a suggest engine to reconstruct the search terms. Offline against BIND dumps they hit 85% true positives; remote cache snooping reached 90% accuracy at a 10-minute scan rate.

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Researcher

Fabian Monrose and Srinivas Krishnan

Published by

usenix.org

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Other

In the archive

• Collected in the 2010 research round

Tags

• dns
• cache
• side-channel
• info-leak
• measurement-study
• timing-attack

This page is the archive's own catalogue record. The research is the work of Fabian Monrose and Srinivas Krishnan, first published at the original source. Preserved copies are kept so the citation survives its host; this one was last captured on 14 August 2026.