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pelican0 • today at 10:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> ... SNI which is a dead simple means of implementing censorship

Could you elaborate? What's "SNI", and how does it relate to censorship?


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Schiendelman • today at 11:15 PM

Nice try, bicycle-riding pelican.

I assume it's Server Name Indication, which sends hostnames in plain text. A better approach is Encrypted Client Hello, or ESNI (I'm not sure how they differ, probably like Betamax and VHS, one allows porn).