Subject: [dnssd] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery-00.txt

From: Bob Bradley <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:11:04 -0700

Here's a new draft describing an addition to DNS-SD to help preserve privacy. The basic idea is to use a 2-phase approach. First, it probes the network to find peers it has cryptographic relationships with (i.e. "friends"). Second, it does encrypted and authenticated service discovery with each friend.

There were a few goals:

1. Advertise and discover in a way that makes identifying and tracking users more difficult.
2. Provide per-user confidentiality so it's difficult for even your friends to determine the services you are offering or discovering.
3. Reduce discovery-related traffic on networks with a lot of non-friends.

And some non-goals:

1. Solving the privacy leaking issues at layers below DNS-SD, such as relatively static IP addresses and MAC addresses being used to correlate service discovery. Those issues are important, but require a larger effort across several working groups so this focuses on DNS-SD first.
2. Solving the problem of establishing cryptographic relationships between peers.

There are also several things that need more thought, such as working with sleep proxies and traffic analysis mitigation.

The plan is for Chris Wood to present this at IETF 103.

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> From: [email-masked]
> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery-00.txt
> Date: October 23, 2018 at 9:32:12 AM PDT
> To: Bob Bradley <[email-masked]>
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> A new version of I-D, draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery-00.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Bob Bradley and posted to the
> IETF repository.
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> Name:		draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery
> Revision:	00
> Title:		Private Discovery
> Document date:	2018-10-22
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		11
> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery-00.txt
> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery-00
> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-bradley-dnssd-private-discovery
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> Abstract:
>   This document specifies a mechanism for advertising and discovering
>   in a private manner.
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