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

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 11 August 2020 05:33 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>, Christopher Wood <caw@heapingbits.net>, "TLS@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Possible blocking of Encrypted SNI extension in China
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Possible blocking of Encrypted SNI extension in China
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Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> writes:

>Fingerprinting is a real issue but from the reports, this is not what is
>happening here.

Sure, I was just pointing out that they're using the brute-force approach now
but presumably at some point will stop blocking when they've implemented a way
to bypass it.  My guess is that since the GFW uses blocklisting (of known
sites/pages) all they'll need to do is fingerprint the sites they want to
block and take it from there.  Stuff like the ConceptDoppler work
("ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship" out of UC Davis -
that was one paper I do remember :-) showed that they don't try and block
everything but just enough to let you know it's happening and they're watching
you, which the fingerprinting approach is fine for.

Peter.

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