A QUIC(K) Way Through Your Firewall? [article]

Konrad Yuri Gbur, Florian Tschorsch
2021 arXiv   pre-print
The QUIC protocol is a new approach to combine encryption and transport layer stream abstraction into one protocol to lower latency and improve security. However, the decision to encrypt transport layer functionality may limit the capabilities of firewalls to protect networks. To identify these limitations we created a test environment and analyzed generated QUIC traffic from the viewpoint of a middlebox. This paper shows that QUIC indeed exposes traditional stateful firewalls to UDP hole
more » ... ng bypass attacks. On the contrary we show the robustness against censorship of QUIC through the encrypted transport layer design and analyze the capabilities to re-gain stateful tracking capabilities by deep packet inspection of the few exposed QUIC header fields.
arXiv:2107.05939v1 fatcat:lv4hibz7nvh3njgz76xhaedcxy