Re: Iran blocking essentially all encyrpted protocols

[Alan Clegg <alan () clegg com>]

On 2/11/2012 4:50 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> FWIW: A colleague in Iran was able to connect to a server in the US
> using HTTPS on a non-standard port (9999).  It appears that the
> Iranian government is not blocking TLS/HTTPS per se, but just port
> 443.  So in principle, if there were just some HTTPS proxies using
> non-standard ports, then people would be able to get out.  At least
> until (1) the addresses of the proxies become known to the regime, or
> (2) they start blocking cross-border TLS altogether.

Or applications (and providers) knew how to use SRV records...

AlanC
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