PsiphonX beta launched
Written for psiphon by Rafal Rohozinski on 2011-04-05
Psiphon inc is pleased to launch the official beta test of PsiphonX - the latest version of our award-winning content delivery system.
PsiphonX is designed to overcome the shortcomings of link-rewriting proxies which made it difficult and cumbersome to view web 2.0 sites like YouTube and Facebook. PsiphonX runs from a single executable file which configures the Internet proxy settings of a machine to point HTTP traffic to a local proxy that then forwards the traffic to a Psiphon in-proxy via a secure connection (via an SSH Tunnel). When the user quits PsiphonX, the original Internet configuration is reset.
PsiphonX was built using a rapid prototyping methodology and released as an open source project. The beta program is designed to get early feedback and engagement from the open-source community in order to make PsiphonX a better and more secure product. A public PsiphonX node pointing at Facebook is located at 687110.info.
PsiphonX builds upon the award-winning Psiphon platform, which is currently used by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, and other public international broadcasters to deliver content into countries where their services are blocked or filtered.
The public beta will run through to the end of April.
