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https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/master/0029-stream/0029-stream.md
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Make it harder to identify STREAM packets on the wire #19

Open emschwartz opened 6 years ago

emschwartz commented 6 years ago

Ideas for obscuring which transport protocol is being used:

It's an interesting question whether any of this is worth doing, because connectors can probably figure out which transport protocols (or even which implementations of transport protocols) are being used just by looking at the timing of packets and behavior in response to certain kinds of errors.

emschwartz commented 6 years ago

More things to consider:

emschwartz commented 6 years ago

This paper might have some useful ideas: Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs