Re: Q: Automatic, secure proxy selection

This question is likely better asked on the DoH or another list, as it's not specific to HTTP.

Cheers,


> On 20 Jul 2020, at 2:51 am, Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> wrote:
> 
> I hope a (simple?) user question is acceptable on this list, apologize if not.
> 
> What (if any) IETF/W3C standards exist to complete the following workflow:
> 
> - all for client/initiator (eg.: browser)
> - Assume some DoH method for DNS lookups
> - DNS lookup for www.example.com
> - get in reply something like: (?)
>    www.example.com trusts the following proxy.com
> - Build TLS connection to proxy.com (?)
> - Tunnel end-to-end https connection to www.example.com across (?)
>    that TLS connection to proxy.com
>    Aka: do not want proxy.com to be able to decrypt end-to-end payload.
> 
> Aka: I am am unclear if there are appropriate DNS RRs to support the
> following steps and if/how it is actually possible to have end-to-end
> encryption across such an also encrypted proxy connection. 
> 
> The use-case is obvious not to have network layer exposure on
> the path between client and proxy that the connection is with www.example.com
> and on path between proxy and www.example.com that connection is for client.
> 
> Thanks!
>    Toerless
> 
> 
> 

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Received on Monday, 20 July 2020 07:02:36 UTC