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Tor offers SSL obfuscation for users behind censorship walls

Tor offers SSL obfuscation for users behind censorship walls

Posted Feb 16, 2012 9:35 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (subscriber, #4654)
Parent article: Tor offers SSL obfuscation for users behind censorship walls

Just out of curiosity: has Tor ever considered covert channels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_channel)?


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Tor offers SSL obfuscation for users behind censorship walls

Posted Feb 17, 2012 12:30 UTC (Fri) by __alex (subscriber, #38036) [Link]

Like port-knocking? Surely the data-rate will be too low for a usable experience?

Key thing about Tor is that even if it's a bit slow, it's still fast enough for the pain of using it to be outweighed by the much less immediate and intangible threat of getting vanned by the feds.

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