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by phillco 5241 days ago
Interesting. Has there been any success in disguising encrypted BitTorrent traffic as another protocol? I guess it'd have to be a protocol whose packets contain a large amount of random data and a large number of connections with different foreign addresses. Hmmm.
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Skype would seem to fit the bill.
That was my best guess too, and Skype is also ubiquitous and would be extremely difficult (popularity wise) to censor. But I doubt video data is truly random -- it probably has some structure to it.
Encrypted video/voice data looks like encrypted Bittorrent data.
Oops, forgot Skype video was encrypted. Duh. In that case it'd do fine.