Carl from Obscura here

Happy to answer any questions y’all might have!

Also, the technical folks may be more interested in our original post: https://obscura.com/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

Hi Carl, thanks for being here to answer questions. Two questions: Do you have any active testers in Iran right now, and secondly, how is this architected to deal with advanced DPI boxes in ISP networks that detect flows of encrypted traffic and drop it? The methods I'm seeing people use with success from within Iran right now are very different than something like a commercial mullvad or competitor VPN.

Some of them rely on people having a helpful third party in ("free") country to set up a private relay in something like Azure IP space that isn't used by any other VPN users, so it doesn't attract a level of attention (or attention by multiples of different peoples' encrypted flows) that publicly published commercial VPN services do. It's a hard problem to solve on a scale of more than a couple of people.

The multi party relay concept is great, my concerns are more with traffic detection/DPI in between the end user and the first hop in the relay.