Lion Steger

Consultation hours

By arrangement

Research

  • Privacy and Security, Proxy Technology, MASQUE Proxying
  • Global Internet Censorship, Great Firewall of China
  • Internet Measurements with focus on IPv6

Teaching

  • From winter term 2022/23 onwards: Teaching Assistant (Lecture & Exercises) for Network Security
  • From summer term 2023 onwards: Teaching Assistant (Lecture & Exercises) for Peer-to-Peer Systems and Security
  • From winter term 2022/23 onwards: Seminar IITM (advisor)

Publications

2026-09-01 Sebastian Kappes, Lion Steger, Victor Le Pochat, Oliver Gasser, Johannes Zirngibl, Tiago Heinrich, “How Did You Find That Address? An In-Depth Investigation of Domain-Based IPv6 Scanners,” Proc. ACM Netw., vol. 4, no. CoNEXT3, Sep. 2026. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2026-07-01 Kilian Holzinger, Lion Steger, Michael Haden, Daniel Petri, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “Reliable Virtual Private Networks with MASQUE,” in Proceedings of the Applied Networking Research Workshop, Jul. 2026. [Pdf] [Preprint] [DOI] [Bib]
2026-01-01 Lion Steger, Liming Kuang, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, Oliver Gasser, “Still on Target? An Evaluation of IPv6 Target Generation Algorithms,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 23, pp. 6082–6097, 2026. [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2025-01-01 Anna Wimbauer, Luca Muscariello, Jacques Samain, Lion Steger, Kilian Glas, Max Helm, Georg Carle, “ThreatCompute: Leveraging LLMs for Automated Threat Modeling of Cloud-Native Applications,” in Proceedings of the 2025 Cloud Computing Security Workshop, New York, NY, USA, 2025, pp. 14–27. [Url] [Pdf] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-12-01 Markus Sosnowski, Florian Wiedner, Eric Hauser, Lion Steger, Dimitrios Schoinianakis, Sebastian Gallenmüller, Georg Carle, “The Performance of Post-Quantum TLS 1.3,” in Proc. International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Paris, France, Dec. 2023. [Pdf] [Preprint] [Slides] [Homepage] [Recording] [DOI] [Bib]
2023-06-01 Lion Steger, Liming Kuang, Johannes Zirngibl, Georg Carle, Oliver Gasser, “Target Acquired? Evaluating Target Generation Algorithms for IPv6,” in Proceedings of the Network Traffic Measurement and Analysis Conference (TMA), Jun. 2023. Best Paper Award [Pdf] [Bib]
2022-10-01 Johannes Zirngibl, Lion Steger, Patrick Sattler, Oliver Gasser, Georg Carle, “Rusty Clusters? Dusting an IPv6 Research Foundation,” in Proceedings of the 2022 Internet Measurement Conference, Oct. 2022. [Pdf] [Homepage] [Rawdata] [DOI] [Bib]
2022-06-01 Fabian Franzen, Lion Steger, Johannes Zirngibl, Patrick Sattler, “Looking for Honey Once Again: Detecting RDP and SMB Honeypots on the Internet,” in International Workshop on Traffic Measurements for Cybersecurity 2022, Jun. 2022. [Pdf] [Slides] [Sourcecode] [Bib]