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    Geneva Blog

    geneva.cs.umd.edu · Company blog · on HN since 2020

    The University of Maryland research group behind Geneva, which uses genetic algorithms to find ways around nation-state internet censorship.

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    What HN says

    Commenters cite it as evidence that automated methods can bypass the Great Firewall, including its filtering of SNI and ESNI, and link its papers.

    Stats for nerds
    15HN people shared it
    13linked in comments
    213story points
    Jul 2022last shared
    2020people per year2022

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification
      2 people · 185 points · first shared 2021 · 29 comments on HN
    2. 2
      Exposing and Circumventing China's Censorship of ESNI
      5 people · 12 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Automatically learning how to evade nation-state censors
      4 people · 10 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    4. 4
      Evading Censorship from the Server-Side
      2 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Get /Out: Automated Discovery of Application-Layer Censorship Evasion Strategies [pdf]
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Geneva: An AI Approach to Evading Nation-State Censorship
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2021 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      Papers
      1 person · first shared 2021
    8. 8
      Foci21.pdf
      1 person · first shared 2022

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • ignoramousJun 2021

      The Great Firewall is bypassed by getoutline.com (self-hosted, open source), getlantern.io (once open source), and psiphon.ca (open source). There are also several other efforts that bundle multiple strategies like V2Ray.

      See also: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/

    • laughinghanJul 2022

      That's what domain fronting is for, and even though the GFW attempts to filter by SNI, genetic algorithms like Geneva are able to find workarounds: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/papers/foci21.pdf

    • LegogrisAug 2020

      Some further explanation here: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/china-censors-esni/esni/

      Looks like it's L4?

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