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They are mostly independent. Your privacy loss is by and large the sum (or max) of the privacy loss caused by DNS and TLS individually. For TLS, the threat mod
by phicoh 8y ago
They are mostly independent. Your privacy loss is by and large the sum (or max) of the privacy loss caused by DNS and TLS individually.
For TLS, the threat model is relatively simple: only an on path attacker has access to a plaintext SNI. In the context of route hijacks, 'on path' is not as simple as it sounds, but route hijacks are relatively rare.
For DNS the situation is much more complex. You have to consider not only traffic between stub resolver and recursive resolver, but also between recursive resolver and the various auth. resolvers.
At the end of the day, you need to consider all places where information is leaked and whether you want to do something about that or not. And in that sense DNS is independent from TLS.