Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
1. Introduction
Between approximately 00:34 and 01:48 (Beijing Time, UTC+8) on August 20, 2025, the Great Firewall of China (GFW) exhibited anomalous behavior by unconditionally injecting forged TCP RST+ACK packets to disrupt all connections on TCP port 443. This incident caused massive disruption of the Internet connections between China and the rest of the world (source1 and source2).
This report documents our measurements and analysis of this temporary, widespread blocking event. Our primary ...
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