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Wickr Secure Open Access


Psiphon is proud to announce an exciting new partnership. Over the last few months we have been
working with Wickr to create a new feature for their secure messaging platforms:

Wickr: Secure Open Access.

With this feature Wickr and Psiphon have made it possible for teams and enterprises in any part of
the world — US, Europe, Asia or Latin America — to have reliable end-to-end encrypted
messaging, calling, file and screen sharing with no interruptions in service. No other secure
communications platform enables unfettered connection anywhere in the world this way.

Wickr, already well established in the secure messaging environment with their versatile platform,
recognized that as organizations are increasingly global, there can be both security as well as
accessibility concerns when trying to ensure secure communication for people all around the globe.
Wickr believes their end users shouldn’t have to worry about being able to connect to their
colleagues, friend or family - no matter where they are, and Psiphon agrees.

By integrating Psiphon's sophisticated network protocols into their new feature, Wickr will allow their end
users to seamlessly protect their traffic and send it over the Psiphon network, ensuring they always stay
connected no matter where they are.

 You can read more about our new partnership here.

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