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Not necessarily. You are correct in that you can't look at the literal messages inside the packets anymore but you can make educated assumptions based on usage
by MrOwen 8y ago
Not necessarily. You are correct in that you can't look at the literal messages inside the packets anymore but you can make educated assumptions based on usage patterns and packet sizes combined with data that's already in the header. Just take a look at this almost 3 year old submission detailing someone's experience with the Great Firewall: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905076 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905076
Since that was 3 years ago, I suspect there's much more advanced network wizardry available today.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI.e. side channels. There are side channels for everything. And if you don't care about precision that much - e.g. you're willing to filter out anything even remotely resembling the actual thing you're after - then TLS isn't going to be a hard problem.