Travis Bemann wrote:

> The question is how would you determine that the data is a Freenet key
> exchange followed by encrypted data without knowing beforehand what
> the data is?  There would be no way to tell that the data isn't just a
> compressed video-audio stream designed by an idiot who didn't bother
> to put any indicators of the protocol in use in the stream (in Freenet
> this would be after encryption is started).

Censorware vendors haven't been afraid of inappropriately blocking
"innocent" material in the past.  If a simple rule blocks Freenet
connections, while occasionally blocking some other obscure protocols,
it'll end up in firewalls.

Removing the MPI-encoding might help.

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