RFC 9458: Oblivious HTTP — A Protocol for Privacy-Preserving HTTP Message Forwarding
By
Christopher A. Wood
Summary
This document (RFC 9458) defines Oblivious HTTP, a protocol standardized by the IETF for forwarding encrypted HTTP messages. It enables clients to make multiple requests to an origin server without the server being able to link those requests to the client or identify them as coming from the same client. The protocol achieves this by placing only limited trust in intermediary nodes used to forward messages, thereby enhancing client privacy and anonymity at the HTTP layer.
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· 2 pulledThis document describes Oblivious HTTP, a protocol for forwarding encrypted HTTP messages.
Oblivious HTTP allows a client to make multiple requests to an origin server without that server being able to link those requests to the client or to identify the requests as having come from the same client, while placing only limited trust in the nodes used to forward the messages.
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