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We're aware of reports that access to Signal has been blocked in some countries. As a reminder, Signal's built-in censorship circumvention feature might be able to help if your connection is affected:

Signal Settings > Privacy > Advanced > Censorship circumvention (on)

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We have already started working on more advanced censorship circumvention techniques, but in order for these efforts to be most effective we need the big companies who are dragging their feet on moving away from plaintext SNI headers to start taking this problem more seriously.
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Solutions like Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) remove the plaintext server name from the TLS handshake, which makes it far more difficult for hostile ISPs to block access to the sites and services you care about — but this isn’t widely supported yet. We hope that starts to change.
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In the meantime, our team will continue to do everything we can to maintain and restore access to Signal. We appreciate your patience and support.
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You are barking under the wrong tree. The first and immediate problem is your weird dependence on phone number during registration. SMS is not encrypted and those "some countries" don't need to do any mumbojumbo to block #Signal, it is simply enough to block the registration SMS!! We have been telling you this for about 3 years now, and you did absolutely nothing about it.

And yes, I'm a monthly donor to Signal !

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It will see more adoption when the RFCs are finalized, they are currently technically not quite yet
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Keep in mind that many highly censored countries you talk about just will ban ECH at all. So I don't think that your solution is viable.
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, I am not familiar with ECH, and am eager to learn how it words with CDN and lad balancers. .
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Here's an article on ECH for those that are interested: blog.cloudflare.com/announcing…
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I wasn't aware of that circumvention feature. Great!
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Also would help if you put the #signal and #signalmessenger hashtag to your main post. People can find your post easier.
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@shadow06 Russian authorities started blocking it today. Other countries that had been blocking it are Iran, China, Uzbekistan and Cuba.
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I run a signal proxy! email me: glenmerlin at glenmerlin dot me for the link!
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because Telegram is most secure messaging app ever, russia blocked Signal 😂😂😂
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I wish Signal could add a Chat Lock feature like WhatsApp.
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does it kick in automatically or do I have to recognize a blockage and manually set it? I can connect fine now, so the option to turn it on is grayed out.
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has released an article on how to deploy a Signal Proxy in your infrastructure to circumvent the blockades of the application in several countries:

signal.org/blog/proxy-please/

The article includes a guide on how to configure Android and iOS Signal apps, as well as the dockerized solution you can use to deploy one of your own.

github.com/signalapp/Signal-TL…

By the way, an approach I'm sure I can use on our own deployments. I like how they use compose, Nginx and Certbot at once. I like it.