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Add an heuristic to detect encrypted/obfuscated OpenVPN flows #2547

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@IvanNardi IvanNardi commented Sep 6, 2024

Based on the paper: "OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting"
See: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/xue-diwen

Basic idea:

  • the distribution of the first byte of the messages (i.e. the distribution of the op-codes) is quite unique
  • this fingerprint might be still detectable even if the OpenVPN packets are somehow fully encrypted/obfuscated

The heuristic is disabled by default.

@IvanNardi IvanNardi force-pushed the openvpn-heur branch 5 times, most recently from 47832ea to 2ef1651 Compare September 10, 2024 19:07
@IvanNardi IvanNardi marked this pull request as draft September 10, 2024 19:38
@IvanNardi IvanNardi marked this pull request as ready for review September 11, 2024 13:27
Based on the paper: "OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting"
See: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/xue-diwen

Basic idea:
* the distribution of the first byte of the messages (i.e. the distribution
of the op-codes) is quite unique
* this fingerprint might be still detectable even if the OpenVPN packets are
somehow fully encrypted/obfuscated

The heuristic is disabled by default.
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@IvanNardi IvanNardi merged commit 0ddbda1 into ntop:dev Sep 16, 2024
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@IvanNardi IvanNardi deleted the openvpn-heur branch September 16, 2024 16:38
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