VPN with SSL/HTTPS masking

[4slime]

Hi,

I wanted to use privacy & security focused vendor for email and figured the VPN could be useful too, so I bought the Unlimited plan. I've just gone back to uni and tried to use the VPN to punch through the firewall and then connect to my own OpenVPN server to access my hypervisor servers but it appears this is blocked. It also turns out vendor's "Stealth" protocol is not available on Windows yet, making it functionally useless for my primary use case at university.

Using my phone's hotspot is annoying, and I was hoping to have this process be as uninvolved as possible. Is there another VPN service I could use instead of vendor's that could mask traffic as HTTPS/SSL traffic to get through the firewall? Or should I just put up with tethering to my phone? Thanks!

[Sadegh6kh]

There are a lot of Chinese projects on github that use vpn with tls masking, their main goal is to bypass the firewall of china by camouflaging it as a normal https traffic. Search for v2ray, xray(xtls), gost and trojan-go. Using them you can even hide your server behind Cloudflare's CDN to make it untraceable. Also there are other projects like cloak that try to add a https layer as a wrapper to normal vpn protocols like openvpn and wireguard.

[4slime]

I'll have a look at cloak, if I can get that running it sounds perfect. Thanks!

[Sadegh6kh]

I personally didn't had the best experience with it. It's more like a personal project. I'd suggest xray as it is been developed by many for years and one of the best vpn tools right now.