Advances in networking and firewall technology have led to the emergence of network
censorship devices that can perform large-scale, highly-performant content blocking. While …

Censorship circumvention is often fueled by supporters out of goodwill. However, hosting
circumvention proxies can be costly, especially when they are placed in the cloud. We argue …

As network speeds have increased to over 100 Gbps, operators and researchers have lost
the ability to easily ask complex questions of reassembled and parsed network traffic. In this …

Tor, one of the most popular censorship circumvention systems, faces regular blocking
attempts by censors. Thus, to facilitate access, it relies on" pluggable transports"(PTs) that …

Recent initiatives known as Future Internet Architectures (FIAs) seek to redesign the Internet
to improve performance, scalability, and security. However, some governments perceive …

NetShuffle is a censorship resistance system that offers" shuffle proxies," where regular
proxy services (eg, HTTPS proxies, Tor bridges) are decoupled from their addresses via …

This paper advocates for the use of an interior session and reliability layer in censorship
circumvention systems—some protocol that provides a reliable stream interface over a …

In many parts of the world, censors are continuously increasing their capacity to fingerprint,
identify, and block censorship resistance tools to maintain control over what can and can not …

In many regions of the world, nation-states enforce Internet censorship policies that prevent
unrestricted access to information and services by their citizens. Over the years, many …

Access to the open Internet, free from surveillance and censorship, is an important part of
fulfilling the right to privacy. Despite this, in many regions of the world, censorship of the …