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Can you explain more? Does China capture ssl traffic or something similar?

• flopto 10y ago
  China throttles lots of foreign websites that it doesn't block. It wouldn't be surprising if they target all foreign ssl traffic for throttling too.
• derwiki 10y ago
  In Beijing currently. I set up a SOCKS proxy through an EC2 instance and it seems to be throttled after 10 minutes of use -- to the point that Edge on my smartphone is faster. Unrelatedly: I was very surprised that the GFW lets through Amazon web traffic.
  • grogenaut 10y ago
    how much bandwidth were you using?
    • derwiki 10y ago
      Not much? Trying to post photos to Facebook/Flickr.
• ryuuchin 10y ago
  The GFW is apparently quite sophisticated[1] and likely uses machine learning among other things such as TLS side channel attacks. [1] http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/ http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewal...
• cj 10y ago
  I wish I could. I don't see how CHina could capture SSL traffic in terms of inspection, but my networking knowledge is limited. Re: higher SSL latency, my best guess is either under-provisioned routing hardware or intentional throttling. More generally, the network topology in mainland is a lot different than networks in other countries. There are 3 main ISPs that aren't as readily peered together as they are elsewhere. (From what I understand, if you were to run a hosting company inside China for example, you would want - or need - to have deals in place with each ISP).
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