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NateNate60@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Attached below is a Wireshark trace I obtained by sniffing my own network traffic.

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I want to draw your attention to this part in particular:

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Underneath “User Datagram Protocol”, you can see the words “OpenVPN Protocol”. So anyone who sniffs my traffic on the wire can see exactly the same thing that I can. While they can’t read the contents of the payload, they can tell that it’s OpenVPN traffic because the headers are not encrypted. So if a router wanted to block OpenVPN traffic, all they would have to do is drop this packet. It’s a similar story for Wireguard packets. An attacker can read the unencrypted headers and learn

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