Domain fronting
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domain-fronting-181-922187
title:
Domain fronting
text:
Domain fronting is a technique for Internet censorship circumvention that uses different domain names in different communication layers of an HTTPS connection to discreetly connect to a different target domain than that which is discernable to third parties monitoring the requests and connections. Due to quirks in security certificates, the redirect systems of the content delivery networks (CDNs) used as 'domain fronts', and the protection provided by HTTPS, censors are typically unable to diffe
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Technique for Internet censorship circumvention
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_fronting
date created:
2017-01-03T23:00:17Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T19:20:40Z
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