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Re: This DNS over HTTP thing


From: Matt Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 20:39:22 +1000

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:45:57AM -0400, Valdis Klētnieks wrote:
On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 01:55:13 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said:
It is a common fallacy that TLS connections are authenticated.  The vast
majority of them are not authenticated in any meaningful fashion and all that
can be said about TLS is that it provides an encrypted connection between the
two communicating applications.  This is perhaps why it is call *transport*
layer security ...

Another major disconnect is that TLS validates the hostname that the browser
decided to connect to, not the host you thought you were connecting to..

Sadly, the W3C is stonewalling on the WebMindReading API.

- Matt


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