That same person developed ScrambleSuit[1], which is used as a pluggable transport to obfuscate traffic and prevent detection/active probing. Work is continuing to keep the GFW from being able to catch up [2][3].

[1] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/scramblesuit/

[2] https://github.com/Yawning/obfs4

[3] https://git.schwanenlied.me/yawning/basket2