
9/24/2018 · Matthew Prince
What this post added
This post introduces and announces the launch of Encrypted SNI (ESNI) across Cloudflare's network, a significant advancement in internet privacy. It explains the vulnerability of the previously unencrypted SNI field, which revealed visited websites to ISPs and eavesdroppers, and details how ESNI encrypts this information. The post highlights Cloudflare's collaboration with industry partners like Mozilla, Apple, and Fastly in developing and standardizing ESNI, positioning it as a new trend to make the encrypted web even more private and secure.