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Will this work for me in China when the Chinese ISPs ban VPN in the next year?

• jfim 9y ago
  It uses IPSEC, so depending on the Chinese authorities, maybe or maybe not. Keep in mind it's the same protocol that is used by foreigners to VPN back into their offices, so if they're willing to annoy them, it probably won't work.
  • xname2 9y ago
    What if they ban Digital Ocean etc.? I won't even be able to setup the VPN, right?
    • jfim 9y ago
      Correct. You could always use your own server from another provider, or use Azure/GCP/AWS instead, but nothing prevents them from blocking IPSEC to common cloud/web hosting providers.
• thinkMOAR 9y ago
  better try to use something that hides itself as https traffic; or hard to distinguish from regular https traffic
• dguido 9y ago
  Hi! Author of Algo here. Probably not! Algo is not made for circumvention, it's made for security. You need to go to the extremes of anti-circumvention tech to get ANYTHING to work in China too. It's not a matter of OpenVPN vs IPSEC. None of them work. Tough problem! I'd love to get funding to work on it though. At the very least, you'll look nearly exactly like a regular business traveler trying to VPN back to HQ with an Algo setup, so it'll attract less suspicion for that reason alone.