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Re:Do you need a VPN? by terrywang on Monday October 30, 2017 @08:33PM (#15590251)
Try to change the default port 1194 to something else (e.g. 443) - this may not help as the GFW has the ability to detect OpenVPN specific traffic.

If it is only for yourself and traffic is very little, it may survive the period of your stay in China. Nobody I know in mainland runs OpenVPN any more so I cannot really prove that, sigh...

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Re:Do you need a VPN? by scott_karana on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:39PM (#15598480)
That trick no longer works at all, to my knowledge. The GFW is wise to it.

That's why Tor had to implement HTTPS-like fake traffic padding in its obfsproxy modules, which also need to keep evolving...

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