[tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

David Fifield david at bamsoftware.com
Mon Mar 2 22:13:18 UTC 2015


Also interesting is that BitTorrent has its own family of obfuscation
transports. I think they are designed to evade throttling by ISPs, which
is a threat model similar to the censorship one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_protocol_encryption

MSE (Message Stream Encryption) is a little weird, but not entirely
dissimilar to obfs3.

https://wiki.vuze.com/w/Message_Stream_Encryption
http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Publications/bbrumley/nordsec08_brumley_valkonen.pdf

David Fifield


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