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ECH Considered Harmful
draft-stein-tls-ech-considered-harmful-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Yaakov (J) Stein
Last updated 2026-01-02 (Latest revision 2025-07-01)
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Abstract

Encrypted Client Hello is designed to enhance personal privacy, in particular obstructing the ability of communications service providers (but not Over The Top service providers) to map packet flows to applications. While mostly ineffective in attaining this goal, it does severely hamper network-based detection of malicious flows, thus exposing end-users to various security risks that were previously avoidable.

Authors

Yaakov (J) Stein

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