Trial version of DPI system "Carbon Reductor DPI X" available for download

[wkrp]

In a thread at the NTC forum, @ValdikSS posted about written evaluations of various DPI systems done by Roskomnadzor. One of these systems, Carbon Reductor DPI X, is available for trial download as an ISO image. I haven't tested it, but it looks like it's meant to work on standard PC hardware. The download directory is here:

• https://download5.carbonsoft.ru/Carbon_install/ (Wayback archive)

A while ago we discussed acquiring a DPI box to analyze. Well, this may be the chance! This could be a fascinating opportunity to test and understand a real DPI system in a controlled environment. (You would want to install it on an isolated network to prevent it phoning home.) I'm particularly interested in another observation of @ValdikSS's:

It is able to detect unknown protocols and sends information about them to the developer

I'm curious to know what kinds of unknown protocols cause this reporting to happen.

Here is the Roskomnadzor report (Russian):

• https://ntc.party/uploads/short-url/nuAPN3ttwNzZzcVeeOFtAfZDv8Q.pdf

Here are the sha256sums. You can see that in many cases, the same file appears multiple times under different filenames.

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14c063d94d1430bf25b9c4668110f183f409e703d4f14690d9b9b3c08f38e43a  Carbon_Install.iso
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d67ef01894aaecd5ce6dfee1f63ef03ca3b6ddd343ff97d87e7158f5f8c98101  CarbonPlatform_devel_1.iso
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a42d7809f5eea053935f7f246d4c7cab6eca74c07543d6a571f3cc3ea7fe58df  Carbon_Reductor_x64.iso
a62d347e6554bebc8be693b214cf1cdc460ec25a338c71c9370096c6fb9e3b3c  Carbon_Reductor_x64.iso.md5
a42d7809f5eea053935f7f246d4c7cab6eca74c07543d6a571f3cc3ea7fe58df  Carbon_Reductor_x64.iso.upload
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[ValdikSS]

You would want to install it on an isolated network to prevent it phoning home

This is a trial version of a premium software, you need it to access the internet to at least activate trial period.
And please remember this is not a generic DPI solution. It's built for Russian censorship in mind, to automate Russian censorship.

[wkrp]

This is a trial version of a premium software, you need it to access the internet to at least activate trial period.

Well, I was assuming that some amount of cracking / reverse engineering would be required in any case--possibly there's a way to disable whatever on-line checks exist. Or alternatively, let it be connected to the Internet, be careful not to send anything sensitive through it, and capture all the traffic it sends back home.