Traffic shaping?

Anders Andersson pipatron at gmail.com
Sun May 16 14:47:25 UTC 2010


On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:45 PM,  <andrew at torproject.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:23:15PM -0400, waterwaiter at gmx.com wrote 0.4K bytes in 16 lines about:
> : In this case, purposely 'shaping' the traffic so that it looks like something other than what it actually is (ie, not Tor traffic).
>
> I call that traffic masking.  As far as research has shown, it doesn't
> look like anything other than https between a client and webserver.

I was under the assumption that Tor enforces a packet size of 512
bytes, which would sound easy to detect. Is this wrong?

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