Telex is a research
anti-censorship system that would allow users to circumvent a censor without alerting the censor to the act of circumvention. It is not ready for real users, but a proof-of-concept mock system exists. As of 2018, Telex has evolved into
refraction networking Refraction networking, also known as decoy routing, is a research anti-censorship approach that would allow users to circumvent a censor without using any individual proxy servers. Instead, it implements proxy functionality at the core of partner n ...
.
Purpose
Telex complements services like
Tor (anonymity network)
Tor, short for The Onion Router, is free and open-source software for enabling anonymous communication. It directs Internet traffic through a free, worldwide, volunteer overlay network, consisting of more than seven thousand relays, to conc ...
by placing ''Telex stations'' in the network infrastructure of free countries. A client can create a
TLS tunnel that is indistinguishable from allowed traffic. That way,
firewalls in censored countries are neither able to detect nor to block access to specific parts of the Internet, assuming they allow access at all.
See also
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Domain fronting
Domain fronting is a technique for Internet censorship circumvention that uses different domain names in different communication layers of an HTTPS connection to discreetly connect to a different target domain than is discernable to third parties ...
References
External links
Official website
Internet privacy software
Anonymity networks
Secure communication
Internet censorship
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