Throttling and SafeVPN

[Dave Cramer]

On 9-May-08, at 4:50 PM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:15:05PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> Some ISPs are throthling all encrypted traffic, making VPNs work  
>>> very
>>> badly (annoying people trying to work remotely when at home trying  
>>> to
>>> reach the office).
>>>
>>
>> With OpenVPN, you can use almost any UDP or TCP port, which makes it
>> difficult for an ISP to identify it as a VPN.
>
> They can still try to inspect the packet and try to determine what it
> is.  After all bittorrent can encrypt its packets too and use any port
> it wants, and that seems to be what they are targeting.
>
Ah yes, but OpenVPN uses OpenSSL to encrypt so it looks very much like  
SSL traffic.

Dave

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