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Comment by Animats

11 years ago

Since SSL doesn't hide the length of the encrypted document, an attacker can make a good guess as to what public static content is being read.

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Kliment  11 years ago

Out of curiosity, does keeping connections alive help at all with this? Would an effective defense be embedding variable-length chunks of nonce in each header?

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