Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election

Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by mehrdadn on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @06:49PM (#24126908)

I don't get how XOR helps here? Isn't this stuff based on timing + length information?

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Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by yabones on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:35PM (#24127182)

Well, it does more than just XOR but the goal is to just scramble the traffic enough that it looks like a bunch of nonsense rather than a TLS handshake. The actual VPN provides the encryption, this layer adds a socket on top that garbles up the data.

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Re:Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial e... by mehrdadn on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:38PM (#24127198)

Ah ok that makes more sense, thanks.

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