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by Meleagris 1155 days ago
If you're interested in learning more, deep packet inspection, and specifically "encrypted traffic classification" are fairly mature in industry. Many traffic shapers are using products like Enea's Qosmos ixEngine or home-grown equivalents which can identify thousands of applications and protocols.

Most providers that use traffic shaping don't care about content, and the encrypted traffic classification is enough to make traffic policy decisions.