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(I am one of the authors on the Telex paper.)

> * The participating entry-nodes (proxies?) could be systematically determined with a scanner for future blacklisting or investigation by someone trying to stop this circumvention of censorship.

The "entry nodes" are positioned at ISPs outside the censoring country. By assumption, they are on-path from the censor's network to popular Internet destinations that the censor has left untouched.

> * You have to trust the people running the entry nodes, if they have the key to decrypt your traffic. This sounds like a design that governments can use for monitoring.

This came up in our discussions pre-release, and we think it's an interesting feature of Telex. You're effectively able to select which government's Internet policy you'd like to live under.