Re: [TLS] Possible blocking of Encrypted SNI extension in China

[Peter Gutmann <[e-mail]>]

David Fifield <[e-mail]> writes:

>Peter is surely referring to the influential "The Parrot is Dead" paper from
>2013

Yep, that was it, thanks (at least one person catalogues their reading by the
looks of it :-).  Thanks for the ref to the followup, can't remember seeing
that, but doesn't that just reinforce the Parrot paper?

The "Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism" paper is an important
one too, you need to look at what the attackers are doing otherwise you'll end
up throwing a ton of crypto at something that makes no difference.  In
particular in reference to a question someone else asked about ECH and TLS
1.3, since it's not defending against anything the censors are doing I can't
see what its presence or absence would do.  Something like ECH seems like
classic inside-out design, "here is our cool piece of crypto trickery, and
whatever it happens to defend against is the threat".

Peter.