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Re:China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypte... by huetsch on Monday November 21, 2011 @06:01AM (#3260711)
Would an outgoing ssh request be hard to discriminate from an outgoing openvpn request or an outgoing https request? I don't know enough about how the protocols work to understand.
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Re:China's Great Firewall Tests Mysterious Scans On Encrypte... by kahawe on Monday November 21, 2011 @10:33AM (#3261415)
> Would an outgoing ssh request be hard to discriminate from an outgoing openvpn request or an outgoing https request?

No. But the point probably is: it is much easier and more economic to block the receiving end once by figuring out what it is than having to scan every single outgoing connection all the time.

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