Telex: a new anticensorship system
Telex: a new anticensorship system
The Freedom to Tinker site carries an
announcement for Telex, a new approach to the circumvention of
censorship of the net by national governments. "As the connection
travels over the Internet en route to the non-blacklisted site, it passes
through routers at various ISPs in the core of the network. We envision
that some of these ISPs would deploy equipment we call Telex
stations. These devices hold a private key that lets them recognize tagged
connections from Telex clients and decrypt these HTTPS connections. The
stations then divert the connections to anti-censorship services, such as
proxy servers or Tor entry points, which clients can use to access blocked
sites. This creates an encrypted tunnel between the Telex user and Telex
station at the ISP, redirecting connections to any site on the
Internet.
" There is a proof-of-concept implementation available on
the Telex site.