Amazon blocks domain fronting, threatens to shut down Signal’s account
In Summary : Signal had moved to Amazon after Google made changes to its network that broke a domain-fronting scheme that had helped use...
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In Summary :
Signal had moved to Amazon after Google made changes to its network that broke a domain-fronting scheme that had helped users in a number of countries evade network address blocking. As Ars has described previously, domain fronting uses an idiosyncrasy of how some content delivery networks (CDNs) used by major Internet services work. Fronting does so to conceal Transport Layer Security-encrypted traffic for one site within what appears to be a request for another domain within the same CDN. As Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike wrote in a blog post announcing Amazon’s move, “Google and Amazon built their[...]
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1302259
Signal had moved to Amazon after Google made changes to its network that broke a domain-fronting scheme that had helped users in a number of countries evade network address blocking. As Ars has described previously, domain fronting uses an idiosyncrasy of how some content delivery networks (CDNs) used by major Internet services work. Fronting does so to conceal Transport Layer Security-encrypted traffic for one site within what appears to be a request for another domain within the same CDN. As Signal founder Moxie Marlinspike wrote in a blog post announcing Amazon’s move, “Google and Amazon built their[...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1302259
