On Dec 1, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@vpnc.org> wrote:
> Here's a start: "Padding the DNS query stream will have a negative effect on 
> the DNS systems as a whole, but will only thwart passive surveillance for 
> those attackers who cannot store and process the larger stream. There is no 
> current evidence that the bad actors in question have such limitations."

I thought the point of padding was to prevent the attacker from using the 
length of the encrypted query or response to make correlations and guess the 
plaintext.

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