In Iran, websites of, among others, Gmail, and Facebook is blocked. Also inhabitants in the country is no longer https-sites, so that, for example, they can not use online banking. The Tor Project wants to provide a solution.
Among the blocked websites are a variety of Google services, Yahoo, and Facebook. Furthermore, all the websites that use the https protocol will be inaccessible. The blockage coincides with the celebration of the Islamic Revolution on Saturday. Although the Iranian government is nothing known about the blockade, the regime probably protests and the sites are therefore blocked.
In Iran, all traffic is strictly filtered and monitored. The encryption of https traffic makes this more difficult, which is probably the reason of the blockage is. The Tor Project used the increased censorship in Iran, to his new obfsproxy functionality testing, writes Forbes. The idea is to allow the deep packet inspection filters to work around the traffic not to show as with ssl – and tls-encrypted connections.
So users can choose encrypted ssl communication if the normal xmpp chats. The emulatiemogelijkheden are, however, now is still limited: obfsproxy, which for obfuscated proxy, ssl and tls traffic look like show as traffic on the basis of the socks protocol. Andrew Lewman of the Tor Project hopes, however, that, in time, every movement emulated. In Iran would be between 50,000 and 60,000 internet users Tor use on a daily basis.