Comment on Outline – Self Hosted VPN by Google's JigsawComments−stralatew8ySomeone has tested it in China and it can get around the Great Firewall.http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china...I imagine a multitude of small privately run VPNs will be much harder for the Chinese government to shutdown versus centralized VPN providers.−cromwellian8yThey don’t just block based on IP, they also do deep packet inspection so if you use say, the OpenVPN protocol without changes, it can be blocked even on a private server.−stralatew8yOutline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect.https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html−xucheng8yThere were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/
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Someone has tested it in China and it can get around the Great Firewall.
http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china...
I imagine a multitude of small privately run VPNs will be much harder for the Chinese government to shutdown versus centralized VPN providers.
They don’t just block based on IP, they also do deep packet inspection so if you use say, the OpenVPN protocol without changes, it can be blocked even on a private server.
Outline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect.
https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
There were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/