FOCI '14 - Facade: High-Throughput, Deniable Censorship Circumvention Using Web Search

Facade: High-Throughput, Deniable Censorship Circumvention Using Web Search

Ben Jones, Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Sean Donovan, Sarthak Grover, Sathya Gunasekaran, and Karim Habak, Georgia Institute of Technology

Censorship circumvention systems that use HTTP as cover traffic make tradeoffs between deniability and performance by offering either deniability at the expense of performance (e.g., Infranet) or performance at the expense of deniability (e.g., StegoTorus). These systems do so because HTTP is typically very asymmetric, with very little capacity to carry covert data …

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