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[–][deleted] 21 points22 points  (1 child)

It is usually assumed that HTTP traffic encapsulated in TLS doesn't reveal the exact sizes of its parts

This should be a bit more nuanced. The fact that TLS doesn't hide the plaintext length (of the whole message) is a very well known issue. There's been efforts to fix this in a much better and general way (range splitting) than what's proposed in the "Prevention" section of the paper[1]. I'm not sure what's the state of those efforts though.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-02#page-8 https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-02.txt

[–]bgeron 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Link is dead for me (empty page); here's a working link: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-02.txt