Infiltrator Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 Over the past two days we've been hearing from, and working with, a number of Iranians having difficulty using Tor from inside Iran. It seems the Iranian government has ramped up censorship in three ways: deep packet inspection (dpi) of SSL traffic, selective blocking of IP Address and TCP port combinations, and some keyword filtering. For instance, they have partially blocked access to Tor's website, torproject.org, via IP address (such as 86.59.30.36) and port 443 (which is the HTTPS port). The third level of blocking is by keywords, such as searching for the word 'tor' via regular, non-encrypted search engine websites. The blocks on SSL are not complete and not nationwide. Where blocking is in place, initial investigations show they are identifying the beginning of the SSL handshake and simply interrupting the handshake. We continue to research and investigate solutions with the assumption that SSL will eventually be blocked nationwide inside Iran. Our goal is to defeat their dpi signatures and allow tor to work by default. The Iran Media Program has posted their thoughts on what is happening from a journalist's perspective. So far, it seems the majority of Tor users are not affected by these blocks. Iran is still the #2 country based on direct usage, https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html?graph=direct-users&country=ir#.... This number is on the decline, however. More details to follow as we have them. Update 2011-02-10 18:05 UTC: We are working on making our obfuscating proxy more stable and easier to deploy. If you can compile code, following these directions will help. We're also working on Amazon EC2 instances of obfsproxy for point and click deployment. phobos's blog Email this Blog entry Source: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/iran-partially-blocks-encrypted-network-traffic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbyb1980 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) I hesitate to post this, but IMO we should keep politics away from hak5. Yes it's sad whats happening over there, but the same thing is happening in China and tons of Mid East nations and no one seems to care about those places. Not to mention if we start talking tech details about Iranian ISP's that is going to attract some not so friendly people around here *points up*. Edited February 14, 2012 by bobbyb1980 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted February 14, 2012 Author Share Posted February 14, 2012 (edited) Yeah, I am aware of the impact of sharing such piece of information could have on this forum. I wasn't trying to promote the article but simply to share with other people who may have something to say about it. As you seemed offended, could I please ask the forum moderator to remove this post. For those who may dislike or feel offended, my apologies. Edited February 14, 2012 by Infiltrator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingpoptartcat Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 this make me angry when i see governments trying to control something that was mean't to be free (not $) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abs0lut3z33r0 Posted February 14, 2012 Share Posted February 14, 2012 afaik, the chinese and iranians use softwares provided by the american government. why cant america block the export of content filering software to the chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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