Re:Ask HN: On China VPN block, would you help us out?
by cjbprime on Monday March 11, 2013 @01:22PM
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> GFW gained ability to operate based on packet behavior.
Yes, that's what happened -- keyword is "deep packet inspection".
> Tor? Too slow.
I think Tor is your best bet, either directly or indirectly. One of the projects coming out of Tor is "obfsproxy", which attempts to defeat deep packet inspection by obfuscating the protocol that you're using so that it looks like a different one: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
(So, perhaps it will be possible to use OpenVPN routed through obfsproxy?)
Yes, that's what happened -- keyword is "deep packet inspection".
> Tor? Too slow.
I think Tor is your best bet, either directly or indirectly. One of the projects coming out of Tor is "obfsproxy", which attempts to defeat deep packet inspection by obfuscating the protocol that you're using so that it looks like a different one: https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en
(So, perhaps it will be possible to use OpenVPN routed through obfsproxy?)