To counter this growing threat of censorship, Feamster et al. have proposed Infranet , a system
that allows users to surreptitiously retrieve sensitive content through secretly modified HTTP
servers globally distributed outside of the censor's network of control. Infranet is novel because
it attempts to hide requests and responses for sensitive content within a sequence of seemingly
innocuous web browsing transactions. Not only does Infranet protect the secret communications
between Infranet clients and servers, but it additionally attempts to disguise its traffic in a way
that masks its very existence. In short, Infranet presents the first such anti-censorship system
which strives to achieve covertness in addition to confidentiality. These unique features of
Infranet provide valuable benefits to system users and significant obstacles to censors. Infranet
gives its clients and servers a legitimate plausible deniability of using the system, reducing the
risk of punishment and legal harassment for running Infranet. It hampers the ability of censors to
methodically block or filter Infranet traffic since it is virtually indistinguishable from innocuous
HTTP traffic. Likewise, discovering or tampering with Infranet sessions is significantly harder.
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