Discovering Encrypted Client Hello Deployments by Active ECH Probing

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Beitragende

Abstract

We present a new measurement method to detect ECH deployments. This method leverages standard-compliant behavior of ECH servers. Prior measurements relied on DNS exposure and reported only one major ECH deployment (Cloudflare). Our measurements reveal yet undiscovered ECH deployments, including a large deployment at Meta. Meta servers support ECH, but ECH configuration is not exposed via the DNS. We also empirically study details such as the level of privacy improvement and latency impact of ECH.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelProceedings of the 2026 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC ’26)
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Seiten276-286
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Okt. 2026
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel26th ACM Internet Measurement Conference
KurztitelACM IMC 2026
Veranstaltungsnummer26
Dauer12 - 16 Oktober 2026
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BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
OrtKarlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
StadtKarlsruhe
LandDeutschland

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-3825-2807/work/226837881