Re: OpenVPN traffic detection

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Hi,

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 12:16:07PM +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wro=
te:
> Using OpenVPN, employees can connect to a company's internal network and =
use it for file transfers and more. I just want to know if a third party (e=
=2Eg. government) can look inside OpenVPN traffic and find out if the traff=
ic is internet-related or internal network!

The whole point of using a VPN with sufficiently secure handshake and
encryption is "nobody can look inside".

OTOH if you deal with a government, they might be able to correlate
packet timing and such ("there are 3 packets coming in over the VPN,
and 3 packets of similar size going out the Internet at the same time"),
or they might just hack your server...  don't mess with governments.

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email protected]=
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