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Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

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Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

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I'm writing this to report the serious troubles we have regarding accessing Internet in Iran at the moment. Since Thursday Iranian government has shutted down the https protocol which has caused almost all google services (gmail, and google.com itself) to become inaccessible. Almost all websites that reply on Google APIs (like wolfram alpha) won't work. Accessing to any website that replies on https (just imaging how many websites use this protocol, from Arch Wiki to bank websites). Also accessing many proxies is also impossible. There are almost no official reports on this and with many websites and my email accounts restricted I can just confirm this based on my own and friends experience. I have just found one report here:

http://kabirnews.com/iran-shut-down-gmail-google-yahoo-and-sites-using-https-protocol/202/

The reason for this horrible shutdown is that the Iranian regime celebrates 1979 Islamic revolution tomorrow.

I just wanted to let you guys know about this. If you have any solution regarding bypassing this restriction please help!

Re: Iran Shuts Down Major Websites and Https Protocol

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Does anyone know how they "shut down https"?

They drop all encrypted connections. This means no https, no IMAP over TLS and no SSH connections. (Im in Iran)

Is it just by port, or do they detect SSL traffic at any port, and then block it?
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