[tor-talk] Meek Problems

[Dominik Ungar]

Hi Justin,

good to hear

2015-10-21 16:36 GMT+02:00 Justin Davis <davisjustin002 at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
> I actually figured out the problem a couple of days ago.  The sensor
> is changing the Google.com URL to something odd that I think may
> affect the TLS.  So instead of fronting www.google.com, I told Tor
> Browser to front gmail.com and it worked.
> Thanks for the information,
> Justin.
>
> On 10/21/15, Dominik Ungar <domi3821 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Justin,
> >
> > I just tried connecting with meek-google and it works fine so I would
> > assume that your IT department has a proxy running which is filtering
> some
> > URLs. Try to connect with meek-amazon, works fine on my schools network.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Am 19.10.2015 03:22 schrieb "Justin" <davisjustin002 at gmail.com>:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >> When I connect to Tor at school without bridges, it works fine.  The
> issue
> >> is that my IT department has a DPI unit that can tell I’m using Tor, so
> I
> >> tried using Meek.  When Tor starts, it boot straps to 10%, then stops.
> >> When I click Open Settings, it says Tor failed to establish an encrypted
> >> directory connection.  Somehow, Meek is being broken by the sensor.  I
> >> thought the sensor might be doing a man in the middle on Google, but
> when
> >> I
> >> load the web site, I don’t get any MITM warnings.  OBFS 3 and 4 and
> >> Scramblesuit work just fine, along with regular Tor.  My question to you
> >> guys is, what would the filter be doing to break Meek?
> >> The funny thing is that I don’t think it’s breaking Meek on purpose.
> >> Thanks,
> >> Justin.
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