Hello,
I want to set up a VPS somewhere else in the world and tunnel my connection through that remote server. What kind of communication do you suggest? Tools like OpenVPN and Tor are easily detected and blocked.

Thank you.

Have you looked at Shadowsocks?

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ssh -X, just run everything on the server.

Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
I have never heard of such a thing before. Is it as easy to use as OpenVPN?

Hello,
Thank you so much gor your reply.
I want to set up a server that clients like Windows and Android can easily connect to. Something like OpenVPN.

And what makes it difficult? Connection requires 3 things: host, port, protocol.

Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Which one? Shadowsocks or SSH?
On mobile phones, applications that convert SSH to VPN usually require root access. This is not good at all.

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I can’t visualize what your “use case” actually is. Where, exactly, is the server going to be? And, were the people connecting to it? And, for what ultimate purpose?

OpenVPN does have a nice feature called “tls-auth” which makes the server essentially undetectable to those who are not authorized to attempt to connect to it. But this requires a disciplined approach using digital certificates.

See paragraph #1 …

Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
About OpenVPN, the tls-crypt is more secure than tls-auth.
Suppose you want to set up a VPN server for someone in a country that censors the Internet. Internet censorship devices detect programs such as OpenVPN and Tor easily. You need to do obfuscation so that internet censors don't detect the app. For example, hide OpenVPN on HTTPS.

You can run VPN in ssl tunnel. This means that your vpn will look like https traffic. However not many vpn providers offer this (if you are looking for vpn provider).

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That's the closest you will get to having your vpn as it uses tcp 443 which is also used for https.
Pretty much detectable by any worthwile security providers (think PaloAlto, etc) but if tcp 443 is blocked, then it's a massive business impact.

Everything can be detected, unless one is disconnected from the net. However, if there is no special interest in specific person, this works pretty well.

Can they really? Or do they just block standard ports? What happens if you use a non-standard port?

It looks like you don't understand a lot of things. OpenVPN is not an app, tor is not an app. Better to say they are services, and they do not run on a single host, but on several hosts (different parts of them). Some parts of these tools are just a special kind of network config (like firewall, routing), some other parts are just (protected) network communication between two hosts.

Check this page: https://www.torproject.org/about/history/
Tor browser itself is just an "improved" firefox.

Here you can read about your topic a bit more: https://tb-manual.torproject.org/circumvention/

So can you tell me how can any kind of censorship detect and exactly what?

Hello,
Thank you so much for your reply.
Can I use OpenVPN with SSL? I want to set up my own VPN server.