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Nice. How easily is the protocol categorized by an external observer? I'm noticing protocols like wireguard more commonly hitting problems as websites rely on third party systems to protect them from non-human interactions.


Somewhat easy, unfortunately.

If you look at Wireguard traffic, you'll see a <EndpointID>.iroh.invalid SNI in the QUIC Initial packet.

Encrypted ClientHello can fix that, but support hasn't shipped into rustls yet. So it's definitely fixable.

The interesting thing is that the ClientHello is undetectable when it's sent via the relay transport (sent inside a WSS connection). And in that case, any traffic that happens on IP is fully encrypted and can't be categorized.




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