[squid-users] Is this the next step of SSL encryption? Fwd: Encrypted SNI

Alex Rousskov rousskov at measurement-factory.com
Fri Oct 19 15:51:50 UTC 2018


On 10/19/2018 02:01 AM, Amish wrote:

> Looks like ssl_bump is going to break once ESNI and Encrypted DNS are
> universal. (Ofcourse it may be few years away)
> 
> Probably only way out to detect the domain name would be by implementing
> CONNECT proxy instead of transparent one.

Using forward proxies may not help as much: A CONNECT request that uses
an IP address (instead of a domain name) is pretty much as uninformative
as a TCP connection intercepted by a transparent proxy.

Alex.


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