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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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Signal
Signal
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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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Signal
Signal
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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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Signal
Signal
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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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Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:
Mehrad :kde: :emacs: :rstats:
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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 !

#signal
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Deirdre Connolly¹
Deirdre Connolly¹
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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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Network is reliable
Network is reliable
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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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Jeffrey Goldberg
Jeffrey Goldberg
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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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designer
designer
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Here's an article on ECH for those that are interested: blog.cloudflare.com/announcing…

Encrypted Client Hello - the last puzzle piece to privacy

We're excited to announce a contribution to improving privacy for everyone on the Internet. Encrypted Client Hello, a new standard that prevents networks from snooping on which websites a user is visiting, is now available on all Cloudflare plans.
The Cloudflare Blog
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Tio
Tio
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I wasn't aware of that circumvention feature. Great!
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Tio
Tio
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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.
#signal #signalmessenger
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Shadow06
Shadow06
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What countries?
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Lyyn ☮️🦄
Lyyn ☮️🦄
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@shadow06 Russian authorities started blocking it today. Other countries that had been blocking it are Iran, China, Uzbekistan and Cuba.
@Shadow06
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Glen
Glen
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I run a signal proxy! email me: glenmerlin at glenmerlin dot me for the link!
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Jendys
Jendys
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because Telegram is most secure messaging app ever, russia blocked Signal 😂😂😂
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dvd
dvd
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I wish Signal could add a Chat Lock feature like WhatsApp.
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The Turtle
The Turtle
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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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Félix Brezo
Félix Brezo
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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.


Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal

Several countries have recently blocked Signal, leaving their residents without a trusted and safe place to communicate.
Signal Messenger
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