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icebraining
on May 11, 2014
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If You Can Read This, You're SNIing
It only protects the specific page they're reading. The domain goes in cleartext (that's the whole point of SNI). Kind of a weak protection.
_wwz4
on May 12, 2014
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It's really a wash since if you don't have SNI, the IP address uniquely identifies the site that the user is going to and the IP address is on every packet but is not ever encrypted.
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