Just add WATER: WebAssembly-based Circumvention Transports

arXiv:2312.00163v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: As Internet censors rapidly evolve new blocking techniques, circumvention tools must also adapt and roll out new strategies to remain unblocked. But new strategies can be time consuming for circumventors to develop and deploy, and usually an update to one tool often requires significant additional effort to be ported to others. Moreover, distributing the updated application across different platforms poses its own set of challenges.
In this paper, we introduce WATER (WebAssembly Transport Executables Runtime), …

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