On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:01:12PM -0400, [email protected] wrote 3.3K bytes in 71 lines about: : It may not be 100%, but, it doesn't really need to be. Its not like : you need all the users all the time, just enough to raise the bar and : cut down the numbers.
Correct, and this seems to be what the GFW is trying to do, just raise the bar to make it difficult enough for the average user. We've been thinking about the arms race out to ten steps along it. With China, we're at step 2. No other country, nor most American/European companies that make censorship technologies are beyond step 1 (blocking the public list of relays). : Perhaps other ways of hiding it are needed. As it is, it would be : trivial to connect via ssl and verify if a machine talks onion router. : It might be harder if there were multiple protocol paths into it. What : if I connect on port 25 and get a normal mail server, then start tls : from within protocol and use a command to switch to onion routing. I : connect on port 636 and its ldap first. 993 and its IMAP over ssl. Trivial for a handful of connections and doing so at a countrywide scale thankfully don't match these days. Not to say a government can't tax their citizens more to afford better technology to better censor their citizens. I'll let the researchers comment on this obfuscation proposal. -- Andrew Lewman The Tor Project pgp 0x31B0974B Website: https://www.torproject.org/ Blog: https://blog.torproject.org/ Identi.ca: torproject *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
