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Tunnel through domestic messengers #125

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@free-the-internet

The idea
Client:
Direct telegram or any light, secure, and useful messengers initial handshake one by one, and then their traffic bursts in chunks of base64 encoded format camouflaged as image (or any other file type) through a message to one of the available government-backed (carrier) messengers available abroad.

Server:
Read the message from carrier messenger, process and return the encoded/encrypted reply to client.

Limitations:

  1. User should have an account in one of the government-backed (carrier) messengers, potentially posing security risks for them.
  2. Suitable only for very light traffic, TCP/TLS timeout adjustments maybe very necessary to avoid congestion.
  3. Probably web navigation is impossible.
  4. Potentially a complete failure of the idea should be expected.

Potential advantage:

  1. When government-backed messengers are available abroad, this technique will work.
  2. Clients who have family member abroad don't have to purchase a server as p2p connection is already established when the abroad living party installed and logged-into the government-backed messenger.
  3. A prefixed key AES encryption can be used for more security

FAQ:

  1. How to read and write messages in the carrier messenger? Use web platforms to read and write the message.

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