irungentoo / toxcore

The future of online communications.
https://tox.chat/
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Methods to evade censorship/blocking #1012

Closed danthedaniel closed 8 years ago

danthedaniel commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to see Tox randomize the ports it uses to evade censors who will simply block connections to/from certain ports.

And even further traffic obfuscation would be ideal. I really don't know what Tox's traffic looks like currently, but if it could be made to look like normal HTTPS or something then it'd be harder to spot.

fcore117 commented 10 years ago

This would be good against these type of blocking(links) and also others who would try to destroy IM communication what cannot be monitored. http://www.telegeography.com/products/commsupdate/articles/2014/08/06/maroc-telecom-accused-of-blocking-voip-applications/

http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/china-blocks-foreign-owned-instant-messaging-services-1201277575/

http://stuffmideast.com/2010/06/10/12556/why-skype-is-blocked-in-the-uae/

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/ban-on-skype-whatsapp-and-viber-in-sindh-sparks-outrage-in-pakistan-511351

http://www.ilsistemista.net/index.php/howto/32-how-to-block-skype-connections-with-your-gateway-firewall.html

XVilka commented 10 years ago

I think it will be possibly to share obfsproxy with Tor.

urras commented 9 years ago

+1 for Tor pluggable transports (Obfsproxy, ScrambleSuit, etc.)