Analyzing IoT Hosts in the IPv6 Internet

Oliver Gasser; Peter Jose; Said Jawad Saidi

Analyzing IoT Hosts in the IPv6 Internet

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arxiv 2307.09918 v1 pith:Y6FONCET submitted 2023-07-19 cs.NI

Peter Jose , Said Jawad Saidi , Oliver Gasser This is my paper · ORCID

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Users and businesses are increasingly deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices at home, at work, and in factories. At the same time, we see an increase in the use of IPv6 for Internet connectivity. Even though the IoT ecosystem has been the focus of recent studies, there is no comprehensive analysis of IoT end-hosts in the IPv6 Internet to date. In this paper we perform an in-depth analysis of IPv6-reachable IoT hosts using active measurements. We run measurements targeting 530M IPv6 addresses on six popular IoT-related protocols. With 36.4K hosts in 156 countries we find 380x fewer IoT-speaking end-hosts compared to IPv4. Moreover, we conduct a security analysis for TLS-enabled IoT-speaking hosts identifying up to 57% untrusted certificates, with up to 32% being self-signed and 25% being expired. Finally, we plan to publish our measurement results, tools, and a website dashboard to foster further research in the area.

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