Flash proxy

Flash proxy is a pluggable transport and proxy which runs in a web browser. Flash proxies are an Internet censorship circumvention tool which enables users to connect to the Tor anonymity network (amongst others) via a plethora of ephemeral browser-based proxy relays. The essential idea is that the IP addresses contingently used are changed faster than a censoring agency can detect, track, and block them. The Tor traffic is wrapped in a WebSocket format and disguised with an XOR cipher.[1]

Implementation

A free software[2] implementation of flash proxies is available. It uses Javascript, WebSocket, and a Python implementation of the obfsproxy protocol,[3] and was crafted by the Security Project in Computer Security at Stanford University.[4] This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific under Contract No. N66001-11-C-4022.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gallagher, Sean (2014-08-14). "A portable router that conceals your Internet traffic". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
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  3. ↑ "Combined flash proxy + pyobfsproxy browser bundles | The Tor Blog". Blog.torproject.org. 2013-02-23. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  4. ↑ "Flash Proxies". Crypto.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-10.

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