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Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
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[–] noride@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look up NBAR for the basic idea. Each vendor has their own 'secret sauce' implementation, Palo Alto only needs 9 bytes of payload for disambiguation, iirc.

[–] binom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thank you! so it is basically looking at identifiable patterns in the packet flow and matching them to protocols. i also found this paper about traffic identification interesting.

[–] meldroc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Time to up the spoofing game. Maybe some AI-generated traffic to throw off the packet analytics.