[tor-talk] Amazon threatens to suspend Signal's AWS account over censorship circumvention - Meek?

Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) me at lunorian.is
Wed May 2 13:04:34 UTC 2018


This is why Signal needs to include Tor Bridges and to be available as a Tor Hidden Service.

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 2, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Marco Gruß <tor-talk at email.todmue.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> according to https://signal.org/blog/looking-back-on-the-front/,
> Amazon has explicitly denied usage of one of their domains for
> "domain fronting".
> 
> As far as I understand it, establishing a TLS connection to
> host A, but sending a Host: header for host B (the endpoint
> that is supposed to be protected by the domain fronting)
> is exactly the mechanism the meek transports use.
> Is meek still active? Is this a problem?
> 
> Best,
> Marco
> -- 
> tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk at lists.torproject.org
> To unsubscribe or change other settings go to
> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk



More information about the tor-talk mailing list