GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderWorth reading Deep Packet Inspection is Dead: https://security.ias.edu/deep-packet-inspection-dead-and-her... This tool is great, but I religiously route all my traffic through a VPN that I own and control. I’ve hardened the box I use to have zero logs and I don’t need to blindly trust a commercial provider whether they’ve been audited or not. There’s no way of really knowing they’re not logging in some capacity bar from being physically in their server room and inspecting their setup. Add to the…
So... this is basically fragrouter? [1] If so, this is a very old idea (I, uh, co-invented it?). A lot of DPI gear isn't built for serious security, but rather best effort, and I'm sure basic TCP tricks like this will bypass those. But you should be aware that serious, modern middleboxes were very definitely built with knowledge of fragrouter-type tricks (and of evasion more generally), and you're better off using a VPN than relying on stuff like this if…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 418
- Total comments
- 161
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-04 | Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker and Active DPI Circumvention Utility | ColanR | 3 | 0 |
| 2019-10-02 | GoodbyeDPI – Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker / Circumvention UtilityFirst breakout | eternalny1 | 112 | 43 |
| 2021-10-29 | Passive Deep Packet Inspection Blocker and Active DPI Circumvention Utility | chii | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-07-23 | GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utilityBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | davikr | 297 | 118 |
| 2024-08-06 | GoodbyeDPI – Deep Packet Inspection Circumvention Utility (For Windows)Hall induction | jftuga | 3 | 0 |