Comment on Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year agoIt’s not without drawback though. SSH tunnel consumes a lot more cpu compared to wireguard. If your vps has a weak cpu, it might not even able to fully saturate a 1gbps connection due to cpu bottleneck on certain ciphers. If you’re using a mobile device, it will drain your battery faster than wireguard.
cizra@lemm.ee 1 year ago
So it’ll take you 10 minutes, instead of 5, to download a DVD rip of a movie… This limitation would have next to no practical impact on being able to communicate with the free world.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 1 year ago
True, it’s not like Russian need to use VPN to pirate stuff anyway.
deafboy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait! You got it. We just encapsule https in the bittorrent protocol!
tal@kbin.social 1 year ago
I was talking to someone from the UAE in some thread on lemmy.blahaj.zone. Apparently, because the UAE doesn't like LGBT stuff, they block images hosted on that server.
I was seriously thinking there about what it would take to hide a VPN connection, and that BitTorrent Is actually not a terrible choice, as it generates a lot of traffic.
IIRC I went looking and some guy did a prototype as his masters thesis some years back.
Lemme see if I can find it.
googles
Yeah.
https://github.com/danoctavian/bit-smuggler