Question about https and nntp.

[RomanNose]

I am just wondering, let's say that there is someone who can perform a man in the middle attack and can see your traffic, would it be possible for that person to distinguish between https traffic and nntp with SSL enabled, both on port 443?

 

[RomanNose]

That's fine then, I am just concerned about whether I will be able to use nntp at University. Obviously I can, given a provider such as astra web that allows 443 however they will know the server is astra web and probably won't be so keen on it. In that case I have two options, tunnelling to my home network where I will Run Sabnzbd + other services or buy a VPN. I will decide later on what I will do, it all depends on the Universities policy to using Vpn's. ( If I am using a vpn on my home network then they won't know if it's a VPN or not, however using a commercial provider they can just look at the destination I am connecting to).