28 May
2013
28 May
'13
8:03 p.m.
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 02:33:40PM -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:
Can a country block SSH? Surely state-sponsored network operations take place over SSH, so I suspect a country cannot block it quickly, easily, and without internal retaliation from it's legitimate users. Bureaucracy.
There would be rate-limiting. While not touching latency for SSH connections, a censor could rate-limit the throughput. That way, "normal" SSH would still work while bulk file transfers (such as Tor tunneled over SSH) would become a pain.
Nevertheless, I think this is an interesting idea and worth exploring further.
Cheers, Philipp