Paper Info
Title
Veiled in clouds? Assessing the prevalence of cloud computing in the email landscape.
Abstract
The ongoing adoption of cloud-based email services-mainly run by few operators-transforms the largely decentralized email infrastructure into a more centralized one. Yet, little empirical knowledge on this transition and its implications exists. To address this gap, we assess the prevalence and exposure of Internet users to cloud-based email in a measurement study. In a first step, we study the email infrastructure and detect SMTP servers running in the cloud by analyzing all 154M. com/.net/.org domains for cloud usage. Informed by this infrastructure assessment, we then study the prevalence of cloud-based SMTP services among actual email exchanges. Here, we analyze 31M exchanged emails, ranging from public email archives to the personal emails of 20 users. Our results show that as of today, 13% to 25% of received emails utilize cloud services and 30% to 70% of this cloud usage is invisible for users.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
TMA CONFERENCE 2017 - PROCEEDINGS OF THE 1ST NETWORK TRAFFIC MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS CONFERENCE
Distance measurement,Internet privacy,World Wide Web,Empirical evidence,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Cloud computing security,The Internet,Cloud computing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.36
References 
Authors
17
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Martin Henze129524.86
Mary Peyton Sanford220.36
Oliver Hohlfeld3153.45