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Let’s give credit where it’s due: https://github.com/maybenot-io/maybenot
The Maybenot Framework (FOSS) is how Mulvad pulls this off, and if you run your own VPN you can use this too! Mulvad is a contributor (and funder), so good on them.
Edit: for those interested, Mulvad’s client is a fork of Wireguard with Maybenot incorporated as a submodule. Cool stuff: https://github.com/mullvad/wireguard-go
If I understand it correctly, it’s an app feature (or is it server side?). I’m interested since I use mullvad on router.
It will all end with us back on dialup speeds once the counter-DAITA throughput machine learning de-obfuscation analysis of defense against AI guided traffic analysis of proxy anomised packets starts. I think I might just read a book.
Imagine a future where you and your VPN connection maintain 10mbps of constant, uniform traffic at all times. That solves the problem too, if the noise is aways high, you can’t see the signal
You can always see the signal in the noise, that is the point of the signal and therein lies the rub.
Sure, but one of the benchmarks of a good cryptographic algorithm is to reduce the amount of meta information you can get from a random sampling. Most of the timing attacks are looking for traffic activity to pattern match ultimate source and receiver. If the encrypted tunnel is always exactly 10mbps of cryptographic traffic, then it would be much harder to identify
Yes as with almost everything the ability to do a thing is just a function of how much you want to do it.
If ya do it right, you can’t distinguish the signal from the noise. Encryption makes data look random. So if you send dummy random data then it just looks like constant random data. No signal is distinguishable.
Seems like it will cost Mullvad more for bandwidth. Great feature overall, very similar to Monero’s Dandelion++
If Mullvad only allowed port forwarding…
They did at one point, but they removed it due to constant abuse.
Threat actors ruin shit for freedom enjoyers again
It’s nice, but it brought my speeds to a crawl.
DAAIGTA
Now I’m curious if the vpn I use will consider a similar approach going forward (PIA).
