Traffic shaping?

[andrew at torproject.org]

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.
What may stand out is the random ports a client asks for an https
website on, such as 9001.  However, this happens on the general Internet
as well.

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Andrew Lewman
The Tor Project
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