Protocol camouflage

2 articles in the Atlas on protocol camouflage - Obfuscation vs Encryption; What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?. Encryption hides what you said. Obfuscation hides…

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Someone trying to be furtive using a black cape, and a hat, walking on the sidewalk around other people. Vintage comic art style.

Censorship & DPI 11 min read updated

Obfuscation vs Encryption

Encryption hides what you said. Obfuscation hides that you said it. Two independent axes with different failure modes, and most protocols carry only one.

Scene of the movie V for Vendetta, the hero V appears in front of a poster of the slogan of the totalitarian government.

Censorship & DPI 12 min read updated

What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?

Censorship resistance is a property of six layers, from the bytes on the wire to the cloud provider, the CDN, and the response to a probe. Protocol is one of them.