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It seems like other VPN vendors are slapping obfuscation on top of OpenVPN and advertising their service as unobservable. This paper contests that claim

Default config with port 1194 is super common with "anonymous" VPN providers. It can very well be fingerprinted. But I hope the data in transit would be secure. Maybe not from NSA.

correct. it sorta depends on what OpenVPNs goals are...

the boilerplate of the corporate face insists its for your businesses and their connectivity, so you could argue that confidentiality doesnt really include clandestine or obfuscated traffic presence at all.

However, you could also argue for OpenVPN (and several others) that as a security tool they should at least consider Goguen and Meseguer type noninterference as a conformant operation model by reducing the awareness of the traffic.

>not for skirting public access controls put in place on your immediate, local

Of course it's also meant for that.