January 10, 2025
At first, the idea of encrypting more of the metadata found inside the initial packet (the “ClientHello”) of a TLS connection may seem …
November 10, 2023
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 …
November 9, 2023
Encrypted ClientHello (ECH) plugs a privacy-hole in TLS, hiding previously visible details from network observers. The most important being the name …
March 29, 2023
Day Two of the 116th IETF meeting in Yokohama Japan. For the rundown on Day One, see my daily report. The OHAI Working Group has submitted the core …
December 23, 2021
In terms of potential impact on Internet Freedom, it’s been a banner year at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). QUIC (featuring the improved …
November 30, 2021
As part of the DEfO project, we have been working on accelerating the development Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) as standardized by the IETF. ECH is the …
March 28, 2014
Hardware Security Modules (aka Smartcards, chipcards, etc) provide a secure way to store and use cryptographic keys, while actually making the whole …