Quick set up guide for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH)

 Posted on November 10, 2023  |  jochensp

The Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) mechanism draft-spec is a way to plug a few privacy-holes that remain in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that’s used as the security layer for the web. OpenSSL is a widely used library that provides an implementation of the TLS protocol. The DEfO project has developed an implementation of ECH for OpenSSL, and proof-of-concept implementations of various clients and servers that use OpenSSL, and other TLS libraries, as a demonstration and for interoperability testing. [Read More]
curl  DEfO  ECH  free software  nginx  open source  OpenSSL  privacy  resilience  TLS 

DEfO - Developing ECH for OpenSSL (round two)

 Posted on November 9, 2023  |  Stephen Farrell

Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) plugs a privacy-hole in TLS, hiding previously visible details from network observers. The most important being the name of the web-site the client wishes to visit (the Server Name Indication or SNI). This can be a major privacy leak, like when accessing a dissident news source hosted on a Content Delivery Network (CDN). A visible domain name also provides a straightforward method for censors to block websites and internet services. [Read More]
Apache  Conscrypt  curl  DEfO  ECH  F-Droid  free software  HAProxy  IETF  metadata  nginx  open source  OpenSSL  privacy  resilience  TLS