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A proper VPN will completely encapsulate your layer 7 data, so you should not be able to tease out the fact that they are torrenting - it should more or less be
by ev1 6y ago
A proper VPN will completely encapsulate your layer 7 data, so you should not be able to tease out the fact that they are torrenting - it should more or less be an opaque stream.
With some protocols you can identify that they are sending VPN traffic to and from a destination, but that should be it, otherwise something has gone horribly wrong in a dangerous way.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoDepending on the VPN protocol, you can still fingerprint by size - as I understand it, bandwidth use patterns are actually enough to distinguish things like "streaming video" from "BitTorrent traffic" from "web browsing". IIRC, ex. TOR does a bucket-filling approach to fight this (something along the lines of trying to wait until you've got X bytes to send together to smooth out the packet size, or even inserting garbage to pad out your use).