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The use of pluggable transports like obfs4 to obfuscate protocol fingerprints
are functionally ordinary Tor relays configured to be “hidden” — they do not appear in the public Tor directory and are intended to let users reach Tor when public relays are censored or when revealin...
An Internet service provider can see that a subscriber is making encrypted connections to Tor nodes, and many ISPs routinely log connection metadata for network management or legal compliance . What I...
Pluggable transports are modular proxy programs that sit between a Tor client and a bridge and transform Tor traffic so censors and ISPs cannot recognize it as Tor traffic . By changing packet shapes,...
">Bridges and reduce the chance of being cut off from the open Internet by disguising traffic and hiding bridge IPs, but they do not eliminate legal exposure or surveillance risk: state censors retain...