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Re: [Pearg] Call for adoption: draft-wood-pearg-website-fingerprinting-00

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 13 January 2020 13:15 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 05:15:01 -0800
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Subject: Re: [Pearg] Call for adoption: draft-wood-pearg-website-fingerprinting-00
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I am in favor of adoption.

On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 4:01 AM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 13/01/2020 09:42, Sara Dickinson wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > A draft called ‘Network-Based Website Fingerprinting'
> > (
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wood-pearg-website-fingerprinting/)
> > has been presented twice in PEARG meetings and received positive
> > feedback at IETF 106. This email starts a two week Call for Adoption
> > of this document.
> >
> > Please review this draft to see if you think it is suitable for
> > adoption by PEARG and send comments to the list, clearly stating your
> > view.
> >
> > This call for adoption ends on 27th January 2020.
>
> I did a quick scan and very much support adoption. I plan
> to give it a more thorough read at some point.
>
> Three comments, none of which ought delay adoption:
>
> 1. I think it'd be good for the RG to have a discussion
> about how one might develop section 8 further. That may
> or may not mean more text for this draft or could result
> in text that ends up in other drafts or in IETF drafts.
> Not sure when it'd be best to try start that, but I'm
> sure the chairs can figure that out.
>
> 2. A suggested addition to section 7: What mechanisms
> to counter WF might make sense for generic libraries
> (e.g. TLS/HTTP libraries) and HTTP servers? By "generic"
> here I mean code that doesn't know anything about the
> resources will be served/consumed. And in saying
> "mechanisms" I include APIs and controls that turn on
> or off or configure protocol-level anti-WF schemes.
>
> 3. Another suggestion for section 7: How might one
> provide defenses that are effective for small hosters
> (as opposed to mega-scale CDNs)? (Note that I didn't
> follow the references yet, so that could already be
> covered by some of the cited work - just ignore me
> if so:-)
>
> Cheers,
> S.
>
>
>
> >
> > Sara.
> >
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