Internet architecture stalwart wants DNS Service Discovery rewritten to protect privacy

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Internet architecture stalwart wants DNS Service Discovery rewritten to protect privacy
October 2, 2018
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/02/dns_service_discovery_privacy_draft/

Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.

[...] Huitema explained that DNS Service Discovery (DNS-SD), the protocol that lets users of a public hotspot find (for example) the printer, also exposes them to "serious privacy problems".

Huitema wrote: "The DNS-SD messages leak identifying information such as the instance name, the host name or service properties."

"The server wants to be discovered by the client, but has no desire to be discovered by anyone else," the draft read – but if the client software is using DNS-SD, that's just what would happen.
[...] The way the service is designed, the draft noted, would even let a savvy adversary build a device fingerprint.
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