Timeline for iOS VPN will NOT connect on certain WiFi
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| Jan 26, 2018 at 17:14 | comment | added | Unknown | On IOS, how would I forward TOR vpn to ssl? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 22:49 | comment | added | Birjolaxew | @MatthewN SSL is just a protocol. Preshared keys are rarely, if ever, used nowadays - and certainly not for HTTPS (which I assume is what you're referring to). In general, if you can connect to websites using HTTPS, then you can hide your OpenVPN connection. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 18:59 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | OP, if you need advice on VPN-blocking bypass or on the dangers of using this network without VPN, you should probably ask on another SE site like security.SE, since the topic is not Apple-specific and the people who could best help are unlikely to be reading here. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 18:58 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | Allan's information is largely incorrect. While there is some very small fixed overhead for a VPN, there is no degree of "continual traffic" while idle that would impact other network users. Filtering is purely because whoever put the filter in place wants control over what you can access and ability to intercept your communications and authentication channels. It is not about resource usage. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 16:58 | comment | added | Matthew | @Birjolaxew that doesn’t work with all VPN blockers. For example mine blocks all encrypted traffic that doesn’t use a preshared key. An example of something that used s preshared key is SSL. That’s also why changing it to port 443 won’t make it look like SSL as VPN don’t use pre shared keys. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 15:52 | comment | added | Birjolaxew | It is fairly easy to bypass such blocks - usually running the VPN on port 443 (making it look like SSL on the web) is enough. If not, an SSL tunnel almost certainly will be. See this article. The latter does of course assume that you control the VPN server. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:40 | comment | added | Matthew | @Unknown There’s ways to route compute traffic to Tor. I think you need to set the socks proxy in network preferences to either localhost:9150 or localhost:9151. I forget which one. The only thing is that Tor isn’t known for being fast, so online gaming could be laggy. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | Unknown | The problem is that it's a game that connects, so I need it to be more than a browser | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:24 | comment | added | Matthew | Try using the Tor web browser. I think I might have used that while my school was doing VPN blocking @Unknown | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:23 | comment | added | Unknown | So in other words, I'm screwed. Correct? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:15 | comment | added | Allan | That's just one. Another is that it must create a static tunnel (both end points must be active) so there needs to be continual traffic in both directions to keep it connected. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:13 | comment | added | Matthew | @Allan Does it do this just because the encrypted traffic is bigger then the unencrypted? Or is there another reason? | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | Allan | Not just bypassing web filtering, VPNs are notoriously bandwidth hungry and will gobble up bandwidth even when usage is minimal. | |
| Jan 25, 2018 at 13:57 | history | answered | Matthew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |