VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 20, 2012 @03:07AM from the man-vs-state-with-a-cast-of-millions dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The internet control in China seems to have been tightened recently, according to the Guardian. Several VPN providers claimed that the censorship system can 'learn, discover and block' encrypted VPN protocols. Using machine learning algorithms in protocol classification is not exactly a new topic in the field. And given the fact that even the founding father of the 'Great Firewall,' Fan Bingxing himself, has also written a paper about utilizing machine learning algorithm in encrypted traffic analysis, it would be not surprising at all if they are now starting to identify suspicious encrypted traffic using numerically efficient classifiers. So the arm race between anti-censorship and surveillance technology goes on."

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Re:"Arm race"? by SJHillman · 2012-12-20 03:28 · Score: 3, Funny

It's actually a race between severed zombie limbs.
Re:This is true by GameboyRMH · 2012-12-20 03:31 · Score: 2, Funny

SSH connections does not seem to be affected at this time.
Can you find a solution to your problem then?
*Jeopardy music*

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"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Re:This is true by VortexCortex · 2012-12-20 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

SSH connections does not seem to be affected at this time.
Can you find a solution to your problem then?
*Jeopardy music*
Let's see what Tim has. You've written, "Don't do business in China", I'm sorry, we were looking for "SSH tunneling". Susan, you've written, "Port Changing Cron Job", no, that's incorrect as well. Yiu? You've written, "There is no Problem"... No, that's incorr--- Wait, the judges say we'll accept that answer, Yiu Wins!