[tor-dev] Combining obfsproxy+scramblesuit with OpenVPN

[George Kadianakis]

irregulator at riseup.net writes:

> Hello people,
>
> I'm investigating how may we combine the traffic obfuscation provided by
> obfsproxy+scramblesuit with OpenVPN instead of Tor.
>
> I completely understand how this combination does not provide anonymity,
> but nevertheless I think it will be of some use.
>
> In the recent past there have been some interest in this combination
> [1], [2], [3], mainly cause of VPN traffic blocking in various countries
> or networks.
>
> OpenVPN supports only Socks5 proxy but current obsfproxy's version
> doesn't have a Socks5 listener, see ticket #9221 [4].
>

FWIW, #9221 got merged to obfsproxy master! This means that obfsproxy
should be advertising a SOCKS5 listener by default now.

I'm planning on doing an obfsproxy release soon (this or the next
week), so please test the SOCKS5 feature and report any bugs you find!

Enjoy!