TechnologyEnglish · 4 months ago

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

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Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

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TechnologyEnglish · 4 months ago

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The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight.

The Tor Project officially introduced WebTunnel, a new bridge type specifically designed to help bypass censorship targeting the Tor network by hiding connections in plain sight.

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I feel like I read some authoritarian countries were trying to compromise SSL at the ISP/host level.

How does this avoid DNS blocking?

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