Sparrowvsrevolution writes "Ahead of the red-letter day of Iran's revolution, the country's supervision has locked down its already-censored Internet, blocking access to many welfare work and in some cases cutting off all encrypted traffic on the Web of the kind used by secure email, social right people and banking sites. In response, the information-freedom-focused Tor Project is testing a new tool it's calling 'obfsproxy,' or obfuscated proxy, which aims to make SSL or TLS traffic appear to be unencrypted traffic like HTTP or instant messaging data. While the tool currently only disguises SSL as the SOCKS protocol, in future versions it will aim to guise encrypted traffic as any custom the user chooses. Tor administrator chief Andrew Lewman says the idea is to 'make your Ferrari look like a Toyota by putting an actual Toyota shell over the Ferrari.'" Reader bonch adds: "A thread on Hacker News provides first-hand cost affairs as well as workarounds."

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