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Re: [perpass] DNS confidentiality

Ben Laurie <benl@google.com> Wed, 25 September 2013 12:26 UTC

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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 13:26:43 +0100
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From: Ben Laurie <benl@google.com>
To: Paul Wouters <paul@cypherpunks.ca>
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Subject: Re: [perpass] DNS confidentiality
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On 24 September 2013 22:10, Paul Wouters <paul@cypherpunks.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Karl Malbrain wrote:
>
>> To obviate the harvesting of meta-data, we do need a secure interface to
>> DNS.
>
>
> It might help but giving people urls that will trigger dns requests for
> tracking is pretty easy. Only something like tor might safeguard against
> that.

Presumably the threat is not the provider of the URL but an observer
of your traffic?

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