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   Message 20,369 of 21,759   
   Richard Kettlewell to Grant Taylor   
   Re: [LINK] Calling time on DNSSEC?   
   04 Dec 24 08:39:37   
   
   From: invalid@invalid.invalid   
      
   Grant Taylor  writes:   
   > On 12/3/24 00:14, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >> Nobody uses PKI.   
   >   
   > Um....  I think I'm one of many, Many, MANY people that will have to   
   > disagree with you on hat one.   
      
   Quite.   
      
   >> TLS has a hole in it, in that the SNI, “Server Name Indication” (the   
   >> “Host:” line in the HTTP request header) has to be sent unencrypted.   
   >   
   > Two flags on the play:   
   >   
   > 1)  Encrypted SNI is a thing.   
   >   
   > 2)  "the "Host:" line in the HTTP request header" is *NOT* the SNI.   
   > The Host: header is part of the HTTP request that's inside of the TLS   
   > connection.   
      
   Quite.   
      
   > The SNI hello message does include something similar, but it's not the   
   > Host: header.  And there's also ESNI to protect it.   
      
   Better than nothing, although in many cases I’d expect that traffic   
   analysis could be used to narrow down which site was being visited even   
   without name information being available.   
      
   >> This allows eavesdroppers, like authoritarian Government regimes, to   
   >> determine when you are trying to access a prohibited service, and   
   >> block it before the encrypted connection can be set up.   
   >   
   > Those are examples of the very things that ESNI is designed to defend   
   > against.   
      
   If there’s multiple sites served by a single IP address then the attack   
   can just indiscriminately block all of them. Encrypting name information   
   can’t prevent that.   
      
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