Encrypted Traffic No Longer Safe From Throttling

coderrr writes "New research could allow ISPs to selectively block or slow down your encrypted traffic even if they cannot snoop on your transmitted data. Italian researchers have found a way to categorize the type of traffic that is hidden inside an encrypted SSH session to around 90% accuracy. They are achieving this by analyzing packet sizes and inter-packet intervals instead of looking at the content itself. Challenges remain for ISPs to implement this technology, but it's clear that encrypting your traffic inside an SSH session or VPN connection is not a solution to protect net neutrality."

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Really?!

[Anonymous Coward]

And here I thought this was how we did throttling before we did start examining the content.

But as usually the summary is probably balantly wrong and on principal I will not RTFA, so mod me as flamebait already.

Seriously...

[V!NCENT]

Is there actually anything good going on in the US these days? It sounds like every day there is less privacy, more corruption, less rights, more 1984.