[tor-talk] Tor banned in Pakistan.

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 09/08/2011 08:02 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
> From: "Anthony G. Basile" <basile at opensource.dyc.edu>
> 
>> On 09/08/2011 05:23 PM, Matthew wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/30/pakistan-bans-encryption-software
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Very disturbing.   I wonder if its possible to hide encrypted traffic as
>> seemingly unencrypted http traffic in much the same way as a gpg key is
>> rendered as ascii armored, or stenographically inside images.  Although
>> such methods may be inefficient, they may be good enough for some purposes.
>>
>> It would be good to know what technologies these ISPs will implement to
>> do the packet inspection for encrypted tunnels.  Half the problem is you
>> don't really know what they'll be looking for and so you don't know how
>> to circumvent.
>>
> 
> LOL
> 
> Steganography not stenography.  ;-)
> 
> They are vastly different concepts.
> 

Yeah!  The hand is faster than the brain.

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
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