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Bug#1001335: apt should use TLSv1.3 Record Padding to obscure file size metadata

From Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1001335: apt should use TLSv1.3 Record Padding to obscure file size metadata
Date 2021-12-08 22:00 +0100
Message-ID <DsccF-8tI-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Package: apt
Version: 2.3.13
Severity: wishlist

apt should pad its TLS connections to obscure the size of the downloaded files 
from network observers.  Right now, an attacker could build an index of all 
package sizes, then track the size of HTTPS streams to Debian mirrors, and from 
that, be able to identify most of the packages being downloaded over HTTPS.

TLSv1.3 added the possibility to add padding TLS connections:
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tls-tls13-21.html#rfc.section.5.4

GnuTLS already supports it:
https://www.gnutls.org/manual/gnutls.html#On-Record-Padding

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Bug#1001335: apt should use TLSv1.3 Record Padding to obscure file size metadata Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> - 2021-12-08 22:00 +0100
  Bug#1001335: apt should use TLSv1.3 Record Padding to obscure file size metadata Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org> - 2021-12-08 22:50 +0100
  Bug#1001335:  Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org> - 2021-12-09 13:00 +0100

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