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Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level (vpncentral.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

VPN detection is simple: track new encrypted connections outside of Russia, connect to the same server, check if it replies as a VPN server. If it does, block the shit out of it. No need for packet inspection or any voodoo.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Fair enough. I mean, there are ways around that too, like some port knocking scheme, but I assume that this shadowsocks thing solves the same problem in a better way.

    But I do stand by what I was responding to on, the bit about the internal IP packets being encrypted and not readable.

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