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Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification Kevin Bock, Abdulrahman Alaraj, Yair Fax, Kyle Hurley, Eric Wustrow, Dave Levin https://censorbib.nymity.ch/#Bock2021b https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/weaponizing [Slides and video](https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/bock) This paper shows how to do a...

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HotFOCI (Hot Topics in Free and Open Communications on the Internet) will be on [Monday, 2022-08-15 at 16:00 UTC](https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220815T160000&p1=1440). It will be a series of 10-minute talks about new and...

The Tor Project's community team noticed that OONI's [Tor test](https://ooni.org/nettest/tor/), which tests access to Tor's directory authorities and Tor Browser's default obfs4 bridges, showed evidence of blocking in a small...

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While investigating [a recent change in Tor metrics in Turkmenistan](https://bugs.torproject.org/tpo/community/support/40030), I found a DNS injection that can be triggered by sending DNS queries into the country. Query for any name...

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Detecting Probe-resistant Proxies Sergey Frolov, Jack Wampler, Eric Wustrow https://censorbib.nymity.ch/#Frolov2020a This research finds weaknesses in proxy-resistant proxy protocols, like obfs4 and Shadowsocks, that make them more prone to detection by...

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This is a summary of the NTC thread [RKN \[Roskomnadzor\] will try to block the following VPN services](https://ntc.party/t/rkn-will-try-to-block-the-following-vpn-services/1022). On 2021-04-15, there appeared what appears to be an internal email of...

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Code name: Turbo Tunnel Designing circumvention protocols for speed, flexibility, and robustness In working on circumvention protocols, I have repeatedly felt the need for a piece that is missing from...

A thread on NTC says that HTTP/3 connections (QUIC; UDP to port 443) to foreign sites are blocked in several ISPs in Russia. I don't know a precise time of...

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https://elligator.org/ This new web site has information about the Elligator mapping that represents elliptic curve points (e.g. public keys) as uniformly distributed byte string. The site features [formulas](https://elligator.org/map), [test vectors](https://elligator.org/vectors/),...

**TL;DR: It's similar to #88, but lives in userspace. It can proxy WireGuard traffic without affecting tunnel MTU.** Project URL: https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go WireGuard traffic can be easily identified due to the...

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