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Frederick Zierold writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I am very curious how a vendor is detecting Tor Project traffic.
> 
> My questions is what are they seeing to alert upon?  I have asked them,
> but I was told "that is in the special sauce."
> 
> Is the connection from the users computer to the bridge encrypted?
> 
> Thank you for your insight.

Are they detecting non-public bridge traffic, or only normal entry
guards?

Detection and obfuscation is kind of a big topic that's been around for
some years, so there are a lot of possibilities.

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