Torrent traffic: maybe with a good L7 filter (not tried this myself).
But HTTPS proxies and SSL VPN's.... forget about it.
It's a game of whack-a-mole.  As soon as you squash one, three more will
pop-up.
You can't block SSL.  You'd need to get a real web filtering solution and
by that I mean a service that constantly updates with new content and
category definitions.
Barracuda, Iron Port, Websense, to name a few companies.  It's still a game
of whack-a-mole but you're paying them to do it.  It still won't get them
all but it will get you hopefully into the 99% range.

There would likely still be outliers, SSH tunnels and people clever enough
to setup tunnels on non-standard ports and protocols that wouldn't be
monitored.

I'd be happy to be wrong and welcome a correction from someone who knows
more about it on this list (there are plenty of them).

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:12 AM, Rizwan Saeed <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
>
>
> I am managing a 1000+ university network. pfsense is working fine. The
> only problem I have is that the students bypass all the security with web
> vpn’s and free https proxies. So I would like to know that if there is an
> effective way to block https web proxies, web based VPN and encrypted
> torrent traffic?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Riz
>
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