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This DNS over HTTP thing



On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 05:45:57AM -0400, Valdis KlÄ?tnieks wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Oct 2019 01:55:13 -0600, "Keith Medcalf" said:
> > It is a common fallacy that TLS connections are authenticated.  The vast
> > majority of them are not authenticated in any meaningful fashion and all that
> > can be said about TLS is that it provides an encrypted connection between the
> > two communicating applications.  This is perhaps why it is call *transport*
> > layer security ...
> 
> Another major disconnect is that TLS validates the hostname that the browser
> decided to connect to, not the host you thought you were connecting to..

Sadly, the W3C is stonewalling on the WebMindReading API.

- Matt