Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP?

From	Dave <noone$$@llondel.org>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.security
Subject	Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP?
Date	2014-02-16 21:58 -0800
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Thomas Keusch wrote:

> On 2014-01-31, ohyeah <ohyea@idonthingso.com> wrote:
> 
>> Really? I was told by another expert (self-appointed?) that VPN SSL
>> traffic over p443 is indistinguishable from other ssl traffic, for
>> example, email.
> 
> Maybe you should stop listening to this expert.
> 
> Do you really think someone's traffic created by him downloading an ISO
> image over a VPN looks the same as reading a couple of emails over a
> VPN?
> 
> Content decryption may be hard/impossible for now, but really, an
> encrypted stream of 800MB does not look like somebody is just opening
> and reading an email.
> 
What about if it's an email containing an 800MB ISO image? :-)

-- 
Dave
Too many gadgets, too little time

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Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Cordell James <cordell.james@gmail.com> - 2014-01-29 00:00 +0000
  Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-01-29 01:23 +0000
    Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? "ps56k" <pschuman_no5pam_m3@interserv.com> - 2014-01-29 11:19 -0600
    Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? ohreally <ohreally@maybenot.org> - 2014-01-30 06:09 +0000
      Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2014-01-30 12:42 +0000
    Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? ohyeah <ohyea@idonthingso.com> - 2014-01-31 02:44 +0000
      Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Thomas Keusch <fwd+usenet-spam2013q4-1391351858@spam2013q4.bsd-solutions-duesseldorf.de> - 2014-02-02 14:43 +0000
        Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Dave <noone$$@llondel.org> - 2014-02-16 21:58 -0800
  Re: Does VPN traffic stand out from other traffic to the ISP? Jared Twyler <admin@intl-alliance.com> - 2014-12-28 13:48 -0800

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