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A Technical Description of Psiphon

Here's an update to address two recent questions: in simple terms, what is Psiphon and how does it differ from a VPN service; and, what has changed since the technical design document was last updated. Psiphon 3 is a centrally managed, geographically diverse network of 1000s of proxy servers. Most of our infrastructure is hosted with cloud providers. Psiphon 3 is a "one hop" architecture with secure link encryption between clients and servers. We offer clients for the most popular platforms: Windows, Android, and iOS (in alpha). Psiphon is open source . Our service offers a strong privacy policy ; there are no user accounts and user network addresses are not logged. Psiphon differs from standard VPN services in a couple of key ways: We deploy strategies to distribute subsets of servers to users aiming to provide each user with a handful of servers they can reach while not revealing the entire network to one user. To achieve this goal, the size of our network