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Because to establish the tunnel, you need to send some "handshake" packets to the server. Those packets are not encrypted and can be easily identified and dropp
by fiveyearsinarow 10y ago
Because to establish the tunnel, you need to send some "handshake" packets to the server. Those packets are not encrypted and can be easily identified and dropped.
- netheril96 10y agoWhich is why `shadowsocks` has become popular to bypass the GFW: it has no such handshake phase and hence cannot be easily identified.
- fiveyearsinarow 10y ago...and when GFW has trouble stopping `shadowsocks`, it threatens the author of the software. GFW is not only the technology, which is easy to bypass, but also the system that average citizen cannot escape.