Re: [Pearg] I-D Action: draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-04.txt

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 21 July 2020 15:21 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Pearg] I-D Action: draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-04.txt
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On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:51:19PM +0000,
 Joseph Lorenzo Hall <hall@isoc.org> wrote 
 a message of 238 lines which said:

>         Title           : A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques
>         Filename        : draft-irtf-pearg-censorship-04.txt

A general issue with drafts dealing with current techniques is that it
is hard to stay up-to-date (a reason to publish rapidly). 

For instance:

> For example, a censor could block the default HTTPS port, port 443,
> thereby forcing most users to fall back to HTTP.

Is it still true today? With HSTS (RFC 6797) and many Web sites
redirecting unconditionnaly from http: to https: I wonder if it could
still be used.

Also:

> When in-window sequencing is allowed, it is trivial to conduct a
> Blind RST Injection:

Trivial may be too strong, if RFC 5961 is used. Referring to RFC 5961,
section 5.1 may be a good idea (the draft mentions a fixed number of
possible windows, which does not seem true).

> while the term "blind" injection implies the censor doesn't know any
> sensitive (encrypted)

? "blind" refers to being off-path, it has nothing to do with
encryption.

> authoritative resolvers 

There is no such thing as an authoritative resolver. Either it is a
resolver, or it is an authoritative name server. (Source: RFC 8499,
section 6)

Editorial:

> This in-window recommendation is important, as if it is implemented
> it allows for successful Blind RST Injection attacks [Netsec-2011].

Not clear.

> [Bortzmayer-2015]
>              Bortzmayer, S., "DNS Censorship (DNS Lies) As Seen By RIPE
>              Atlas", 2015,

It's Bortzmeyer :-)

> [Zmijewski-2014]
>              Zmijewski, E., "Turkish Internet Censorship Takes a New
>              Turn", 2014, <http://www.renesys.com/2014/03/turkish-
>              internet-censorship/>.

Moved (without a redirect) with all the Renesys content, after being
bought by Oracle. It is now
<https://blogs.oracle.com/internetintelligence/turkish-internet-censorship-takes-a-new-turn>