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Pakistan Bans Encryption
An anonymous reader writes "After some rumors of this last month, Pakistan has now officially told all of the country's ISPs that they need to block all encrypted VPNs since content running over such services cannot be monitored by the government."
How can one detect if a packet is encrypted? How do you distinguish unencrypted binary data from encrypted binary data?
By checking the "encrypted" bit in the TCP/IP packet header. It's right next to the "evil" bit.
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Rats. I was planning to make a huge purchase of textiles and smuggled afghan opium from PakistanMallOnline.com with my credit card. Now, since it won't be encrypted, I cannot. Guess I'll have to buy from IndiaMallOnline instead.