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[tor-project] Re: Chinese research grant 2023YFB3106700, "Research on Generalized Security Theory for Dark Web Suppression"
There's heaps and heaps of such papers, in English and Chinese. Take the
professor 程光 (Cheng Guang) we have been talking about and look at just
his English publications:
https://dblp.org/pid/99/4812-1.html
He has supposedly 14 publications already in 2026, an average of almost
1 per week. Many on topics related to anonymity and censorship:
"encrypted traffic classification", "multi-functional traffic analysis
system", "webpage fingerprinting", "HTTPS encrypted traffic
classification", "private protocol reverse engineering", "flow
watermarking", "real-time detection of malicious DoH traffic".
Even just *reading* all these publications would be a nontrivial task,
and this is just one professor's lab. If I had to guess based on prior
experience, I'd estimate at least 80% of them are probably
inconsequential dreck, hardly worth the time to triage. But there can be
good stuff sometimes. Take for example the Chinese patent application
CN109391590A from 2019, which revealed the name (Maat) and the abstract
functioning of a system of expressing firewall rules, which was later
(in 2025) confirmed to be part of Geedge Networks' classification stack.
https://patents.google.com/patent/CN109391590A/en
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/444 (commentary on the patent application)
https://interseclab.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Internet-Coup_September2025.pdf#page=24 (footnote 10)
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/519#issuecomment-3282101626
A Chinese researcher whose papers tend to be of higher quality and have
a higher probability of being worth reading is 郑超 (Zheng Chao), CTO of
Geedge Networks. He is one of the inventors on the above patent
application CN109391590A. Here is a roundup of some of his research up
to 2024:
https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/369#issuecomment-2195455424
https://dblp.org/pid/54/1147-1.html
I mentioned how it's difficult to find information about National Key
R&D Program grant numbers, unless someone involved in the grant happens
to post something online about it. Professor 程光 (Cheng Guang) actually
has two National Key R&D Program grants on his home page, including
titles and funding amounts. Not the 2023YFB3106700 that started the
thread, but 2018YFB1800602 and 2020YFB1804604.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260320164444/https://cyber.seu.edu.cn/_s303/cg1/list.psp
2018YFB1800602
Title: 下一代网络处理器体系结构及关键技术研究
(Next-generation Network Processor Architecture and Key Technology Research)
PI: 程光 (Cheng Guang)
Start date: 2019-06
End date: 2023-06
Amount: 954 万元 ≈ 1.4M USD
2020YFB1804604
Title: 内生安全交换机关键技术研究
(Endogenous Security Switch Key Technology Research)
PI: 程光 (Cheng Guang)
Start date: 2020-07
End date: 2024-06
Amount: 118.5 万元 ≈ 180k USD
On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 11:03:12PM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:
> I was not aware that there were so many research papers being published
> publicly, in English, at from what I can guess are legit, well-known but
> perhaps not top-tier journals and conferences? Do you wind up changing
> anything in the protocols or the implementations based on what they find?
>
> -tom
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 15:10, griffin via tor-project <tor-project@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Correction:
> > 委托项目 or 横向项目
>
> I'd listed the same phrase twice ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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