Fingerprinting Obfuscated Proxy Traffic with Encapsulated {TLS} Handshakes

D Xue, M Kallitsis, A Houmansadr… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
The global escalation of Internet censorship by nation-state actors has led to an ongoing
arms race between censors and obfuscated circumvention proxies. Research over the past …

Network measurement methods for locating and examining censorship devices

RS Raman, M Wang, J Dalek, J Mayer… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Network responses to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022: a cautionary tale for internet freedom

R Ramesh, RS Raman, A Virkud, A Dirksen… - 32nd USENIX Security …, 2023 - usenix.org
Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was followed by sanctions and restrictions: by
Russia against its citizens, by Russia against the world, and by foreign actors against …

Bridging Barriers: A Survey of Challenges and Priorities in the Censorship Circumvention Landscape

D Xue, A Ablove, R Ramesh, GK Danciu… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
The ecosystem of censorship circumvention tools (CTs) remains one of the most opaque
and least understood, overshadowed by the precarious legal status around their usage and …

Global, passive detection of connection tampering

R Sundara Raman, LH Merino, K Bock… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In-network devices around the world monitor and tamper with connections for many reasons,
including intrusion prevention, combating spam or phishing, and country-level censorship …

Investigating Deployment Issues of DNS Root Server Instances from a China-wide View

F Zhang, B Liu, C Lu, Y Xing, H Duan… - … on Dependable and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DNS root servers are the starting point of most DNS queries. To ensure their security and
stability, multiple anycast instances are operated worldwide, and new root instances have …

A Worldwide View of Nation-state Internet Censorship

A Master, C Garman - Free and Open Communications on the …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
Nation-states impose various levels of censorship on their Internet communications. As
access to Internet resources has grown among the global population, some governments …

Digital discrimination of users in sanctioned states: the case of the cuba embargo

A Ablove, S Chandrashekaran, H Le… - 33rd USENIX Security …, 2024 - usenix.org
We present one of the first in-depth and systematic end-user centered investigations into the
effects of sanctions on geoblocking, specifically in the case of Cuba. We conduct network …

Learning from Censored Experiences: Social Media Discussions around Censorship Circumvention Technologies

EP Vafa, M Singhal, P Thota, SS Roy - 2025 IEEE Symposium on …, 2024 - computer.org
During periods of strict internet censorship, maintaining access to online information and
communication becomes paramount. However, users often have to navigate complicated …

Yesterday Once More: Global Measurement of Internet Traffic Shadowing Behaviors

Y Xing, C Lu, B Liu, H Duan, J Sun, Z Li - … of the 2024 ACM on Internet …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We present a global, large-scale measurement of Internet traffic shadowing, a less-studied
yet covert format of on-path manipulation. As part of pervasive monitoring, data within …