Prevent Tor/HSS and other onion routers from working

[Azure]

Found the article. In a magazine though.

They have a section that is titled, 'Just How Intelligent Is A Web Proxy.'

Short answer. Encrypted HTTPS(SSL or TLS) sessions aren't truly proxied. They're tunneled through the Web proxy. The contents of HTTPS sessions are, in practical terms, completely opaque to the Web proxy.

Which is kinda what I thought.

[sclitheroe]

Originally Posted by Azure

Found the article. In a magazine though.

They have a section that is titled, 'Just How Intelligent Is A Web Proxy.'

Short answer. Encrypted HTTPS(SSL or TLS) sessions aren't truly proxied. They're tunneled through the Web proxy. The contents of HTTPS sessions are, in practical terms, completely opaque to the Web proxy.

Which is kinda what I thought.

Which kinda leads you back, I guess to blocking the directory servers and a list of IP’s that you can generate by querying those same directory servers.

You gotta admit - they did their homework developing Tor, it does seem to work pretty well in hostile network environments!

[Azure]

Pretty much. Seems to be the only thing I can do. I will look into seeing if I can some traffic shaping over HTTPS. At least to help aleviate the amount of bandwidth being used that can't be controlled.

I actually really admire Tor. As long as it can piss of China and Iran, then I'm fine with a small headache of trying to deal with the bandwidth problems it can cause.

[jammies]

If money is no object, hire thugs to intimidate the users into compliance. A few burnt-down colonies and the rest will fall into line.

[Cliche]

Originally Posted by sclitheroe

Which kinda leads you back, I guess to blocking the directory servers and a list of IP’s that you can generate by querying those same directory servers.

You gotta admit - they did their homework developing Tor, it does seem to work pretty well in hostile network environments!

Considering that Tor was originally backed by NRL it should come as no surprise that this is another military technique re-purposed for the civilian sector.