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Re: Where are the places that block encrypted traffic?

Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> Wed, 03 June 2015 15:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: Where are the places that block encrypted traffic?
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I travel  heavily and visit many different kinds of public & private
institutions; and it has been many years since I’ve observed HTTPS
blockage. Even in China, it seems the blockage is more domain-based than
protocol-based.

So yes, I’d like to hear evidence for the claim of protocol blockage.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Sam Hartman <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu> wrote:

> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> writes:
>
>
> to be clear, none of this is the sort of thing I was looking for.  All
> of this is discussions of parts of the Internet that aren't particularly
> transparent or interested in letting you have open access to large
> portions of the net.
> I don't care if the ietf website is accessible from a hotel before you
> accept the network's terms.
>
> Based on the discussion so far I'd like to see better justification for
> the claim that there are portions of the network that block TLS before
> we make it.
>
>


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