Cloudflare, Mozilla, Fastly, and Apple Working on Encrypted SNI
I think it&#x27;s worth pointing out the repercussions of this and DNS-over-HTTPS.<p>Every corporation which does SNI scanning for web filtering will require every user to insert the company&#x27;s CA cert in every client they use. This then also forces them to make a choice between requiring all apps in all networks to do this, or whitelist certain parts of the network. Not only does this reduce their security, but it limits how apps can work on their networks.<p>Authoritarian governments will also start requiring this. I could even see federal agencies for non-authoritarian governments making a stink over it on law enforcement grounds. They already hate encryption. If they can&#x27;t force you to expose what sites you are visiting, they may force new legislation to require all web service providers to provide logs to law enforcement, which is a much worse privacy violation than just seeing what domain you were hitting.<p>I think the better solution to this would have been to improve server-side support for VPNs and Tor. Tech does not exist in a bubble, and rights can be taken away when they conflict with the interests of authority.