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minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoHow does this work? I thought WebRTC is UDP and Tor is over TCP. I don’t really know what I’m talking about here, but I’d like to know some details.
minus-squarePietro395@feddit.itOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·3 days agoBasically, simulating a WebRTC call allows a user to access the Tor network in a country where connections are monitored. Through NAT Traversal two users are brought into communication without opening any ports to the outside of the network https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Technical Overview
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 days agoOh, it is part of the Tor project even. Cool. Thanks. I will read the links.
How does this work? I thought WebRTC is UDP and Tor is over TCP. I don’t really know what I’m talking about here, but I’d like to know some details.
Basically, simulating a WebRTC call allows a user to access the Tor network in a country where connections are monitored. Through NAT Traversal two users are brought into communication without opening any ports to the outside of the network
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/wikis/Technical Overview
Oh, it is part of the Tor project even. Cool. Thanks. I will read the links.