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by rrll22 2413 days ago
> HTTP/3 relies on QUIC as the underlying transport. The QUIC version

> being used MUST use TLS version 1.3 or greater as its handshake

> protocol. HTTP/3 clients MUST indicate the target domain name during

> the TLS handshake. This may be done using the Server Name Indication

> (SNI) [RFC6066] extension to TLS or using some other mechanism.

So if TLS 2.0 starts using ESNI (either draft-ietf-tls-esni or draft-ietf-tls-sni-encryption) QUIC will benefit from that too. Otherwise, QUIC is neutral.