On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Christian Huitema <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> [...]
>
> Of course, one only gets the privacy benefits if the TLS demuxing is not
> based on clear text fields like the SNI or the ALPN. DKG proposes an
> heuristic, based on the observation that the first bytes of application
> data are enough to differentiate HTTP and DNS. Heuristics like these
> have the advantage of being easily deployed. They do have the
> inconvenient of affecting the long term evolution of the application
> protocols. We may want to look at a robust long term alternative.
>

Perhaps we should revisit the decision not to encrypt the ALPN
extension (NPN redux?). It seems that might have helped use cases
like these in the more robust manner.

-- 
Shumon Huque
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