Re: [dns-privacy] Stephen Farrell's Yes on draft-ietf-dprive-edns0-padding-02: (with COMMENT)

Stephen,

thanks for the COMMENT. What about simply removing "significantly" from the
sentence above? Would that address your concerns? I do admit English is not
my first language, so i'm open for suggestions :)

Alex

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 11:07 AM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:

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> - intro: "significantly hampering" is over-stated, even though you
> do limit that to size-based correlation as a form of traffic
> analysis. This is a basic mechanism (a fine thing) but by itself
> does not counter traffic analysis that much. See e.g. [1] for a
> relevant study.  Referencing [1] and/or [2] and saying that this
> mechanism isn't itself enough would be a good improvement.  ([2] is
> a colleague's work btw, but I think is good:-). Neither [1] nor [2]
> are DNS-specific, not sure if there are publications that cover
> that.  Without such a caveat, people might over-claim and not do the
> right things.  Happy to help craft words for that if you want.
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>    [1] http://kpdyer.com/publications/oakland2012-peekaboo.pdf
>    [2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.2087v2.pdf
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> - typo: "meta data of could still"
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