Re: [tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-03-07 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
I agree with Michael's idea of core parts vs replaceable parts (such as the type of cover traffic) since I feel much of the censorship circumvention still relies on how the landscape looks like and that there isn't a clear cut, theory-based solution to the problem (in the way you argue for example

Re: [tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-03-05 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
Hey Leeroy, On your last point: yeah a traffic capture follows by TCP packet reconstruction and thus reconstruction of the bittorrent messages and a check against the original checksums of the pieces (as specified in the torrent file) will show that a connection was not genuine (very likely it was

Re: [tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-03-03 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
sing the Adversary Labs tools I have been developing. > > By the way, George is on my committee as well! > > On Saturday, February 28, 2015, Dan Cristian Octavian < > danoctavia...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> My name is Dan, I've been workin

Re: [tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-03-02 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
Hi Leeroy, If I understand correctly, you are arguing that my assumption that bittorrent is unlikely to be blocked is faulty. I don't have a strong argument against this, other than that it would be a very drastic move since for that part of the world bittorrent is the main way to get access to me

Re: [tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-03-02 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
5 at 2:01 PM, David Fifield wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 10:46:03AM -0800, Dan Cristian Octavian wrote: > > My name is Dan, I've been working on a pluggable transport for Tor based > on > > bittorrent as cover traffic and wanted to let you know about it. > >

[tor-dev] bittorrent based pluggable transport

2015-02-28 Thread Dan Cristian Octavian
Hello! My name is Dan, I've been working on a pluggable transport for Tor based on bittorrent as cover traffic and wanted to let you know about it. https://github.com/danoctavian/bit-smuggler In a nutshell, I'm tunnelling a data stream through a bittorrent peer connection that is created by real