Subject: Re: [dns-privacy] Solving the problem

From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:01:51 +0100

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 01:34:17PM -0700,
 Watson Ladd <[email-masked]> wrote 
 a message of 86 lines which said:

> > > Many of these PIR protocols are very efficient.
> >
> > Do you have more specific references?
> 
> http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/techreports/2010/cacr2010-17.pdf
> https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final90.pdf

I've read them with great interest and learned a lot of things *but*
clearly they cannot be used for the DNS protocol, they would require a
completely new protocol, something which is not in DPRIVE charter
<http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/dprive/charter/> "Maintain backwards
compatibility with legacy DNS implementations"