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Can someone explain to me why Tor does not use "domain fronting" to hide that it is Tor traffic?
by rhcom2 10y ago
Can someone explain to me why Tor does not use "domain fronting" to hide that it is Tor traffic?
- carbocation 10y agoFrom the article: > That domain fronting technique has already been used by other encryption and anti-censorship tools like Tor, Psiphon, and Lantern. (This doesn't answer your question, but it does raise the possibility that it's begging the question.)
- chrisballinger 10y agoThis is exactly what the meek [1] pluggable transport does. It was developed by David Fifield, of the original authors of the domain fronting paper [2]. 1. https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/meek 2. https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/ https://www.bamsoftware.com/papers/fronting/
- rhcom2 10y agoThanks a lot for the links. So am I correct in understanding that the reason this isn't a default Tor capability is the setup around the domains used to do the fronting (looks like meek uses mostly CDNs?)