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OrchidTechnologies / orchid

Orchid: VPN, Personal Firewall
https://www.orchid.com/
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Support other protocols ? Like, geph and shadowsocks #137

Closed planetoryd closed 1 year ago

planetoryd commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I haven't tried it yet, but based on my experience many protocols are easily detected and blocked by GFW. I have no expertise on this topic though. China has a large market for VPN because of the GFW (millions of users). Chinese people have developed specialized protocols like shadowsocks, v2ray and now geph. Apparently the reason is that usual protocols fail.

Also, Chinese need anonymous crypto payments or Alipay.

Describe the solution you'd like

I wonder if your currently supported protocols are resistant to GFW, which should be the most sophisticated firewall, and if your products penetrates GFW, it would be unstoppable.

Describe alternatives you've considered

or your protocol is censorship-resistant enough.

saurik commented 1 year ago

We have a team of users who had recently tested our product in China and AFAIK it is currently functional. It could be that I missed the current status, however. It also--of course--already uses our probablistic nanopayments cryptocurrency payment model (though sometimes our pricing oracle logic doesn't work if you are in China; I believe most currencies we support should work at this time, though). If you have a concrete issue with the mechanism not functioning for you, please either re-open this ticket or contact us directly.

planetoryd commented 1 year ago

The government upgrades their firewall frequently. In any case, you need to be prepared. New protocols come out every year and the cause is obvious