Technology

It is going to show the censor that you are trying to reach different banned websites (and, probably, google, facebook, etc), all hosted on your server. Your beautiful website is all fine, but in clienthello there is still google.

WTF? No, in clienthello there is www.mysite.com . I'm talking about encapsulating traffic in an encrypted tunnel. We are assuming that FSB can't decipher your TLS traffic.

The beautiful website I've imagined for a situation where some DPI robot will, say, visit it to check that there really is a website there. Or where you have to show that it's a real website to get into a whitelist. Or something like that.

I don't get it, you seem to be interested in the subject, but say weird things.

You also seem to be mixing up such entities as VPNs, proxies and encapsulation.

GnuTLS for this particular purpose is used only by Openconnect and that is just an example.

I've definitely seen more things using it even for similar purposes. Can't remember anything specific, but I suppose a search in pkgsrc will yield something.

This tactic is very effective in China and Russia and collateral damage is insignificant.

BTW, I'm using VPNs in Russia from time to time. Something doesn't work, something does.

And various western anti-censorship organizations wrote articles, that such methods are not possible in Russia as well,

I'm describing a specific kind of encapsulation. What you can do to guess that it's a VPN is to analyze the amounts of data transmitted. That'd just require sending garbage from time to time. I think I've even seen a ready piece of software to make such tunnels.