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How can I trick SSH to connect using different configurations based on current location?

What are some ways to connect to Amazon EC2 without using SSH?

  • The reason that I ask this is that I live in Iran and the government makes SSH connection very slow! (Don't even talk about VPNs. :) They hardly work. ) I want to use my EC2 instance as a proxy and I will add my own encryption to my traffic ( I want to use that proxy for myself only, so I don't need fancy encryption, I just add a simple encryption and decrypt it in my host.) And it would be wonderful if you have any general advises/links that are helpful for creating proxies/talking to servers. I know programming so feel free to suggest some programming material.

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    Can you use Mosh? http://mosh.mit.edu Much faster than SSH, but you need to be able to send UDP.

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The easiest would be to install something like https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/squid.html in your EC2 instance. (If for some reason that doesn't work for you, it's easy to roll your won with simple Socket Programming - http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets/)

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I am not sure how Iranian government would detect ssh traffic. The only way they can do it is by probably throttling all traffic on port 22. So I suggest you first login into your ec2 instance  using the slow ssh and then you can change the ssh port from 22 to 8080 (or if you are not running a web server to 80). Other alternative is to by a server with Rackspace which costs around $9 per month. They provide a java based in browser shell to that server. You can use that shell to login into ec2 instance. The best alternative would be however to migrate to a better country.

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