Paper summary: Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies (CCS 19)

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There’s an existing thread about Geneva (the tool):

Geneva—Automatically learning how to evade nation-state censors

https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/ Geneva: Evolving censorship evasion We have developed Geneva (Genetic Evasion), a novel genetic algorithm that evolves packet-manipulation-based censorship evasion strategies against nation-state level censors. Geneva re-derived virtually all previously published evasion strategies within hours, and has discovered new ways of circumventing censorship in China, India, and Kazakhstan. Genetic Building Blocks [image] Geneva is a genetic algorithm, a form of biologicall…