Is it just me or does this smack of security by obscurity - as long as the great firewall of China/Iran/Whomever does not recognise the packets are hiding the r

Is it just me or does this smack of security by obscurity - as long as the great firewall of China/Iran/Whomever does not recognise the packets are hiding the real destination... No no, this isn't security by obscurity. By your definition, every encryption scheme provides security by obscurity of encryption keys (kept a secret) and data (that looks "random"). :-) The details of this implementation are public so that anyone can review it. Does http://viewtext.org http://viewtext.org work behind your proxy? If not, have you tried Tor http://torproject.org http://torproject.org?