Wickr Adds New Censorship Circumvention Feature to its Encrypted App

guest · Aug 23, 2018

Wickr Adds New Censorship Circumvention Feature to its Encrypted App
Open Secure Access addresses void created by Google, Amazon decision to disallow domain fronting, company says.
August 23, 2018
https://www.darkreading.com/vulnera...n-feature-to-its-encrypted-app/d/d-id/1332623

Wickr has added a new Open Secure Access capability to its instant messaging app, which the company says enables encrypted communications that is far more resilient to Internet traffic restrictions and censorship attempts than typical domain-fronting approaches.

The new feature is based on the open source Psiphon Internet censorship circumvention tool developed by the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab for users of Windows and mobile devices. It uses domain fronting as just one of multiple techniques, including SSH and VPN technology, for directing encrypted traffic around blocking attempts.

Wickr sees Open Secure Access as filling a void that Amazon and Google created earlier this year when they stopped supporting domain fronting on their platforms.
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guest · Oct 4, 2018

Wickr Announces General Availability of Anti-Censorship Tool
October 4, 2018
https://www.securityweek.com/wickr-announces-general-availability-anti-censorship-tool

Wickr has announced the general availability of its secure open access protocol to circumvent censorship for all Wickr Me and Wickr Pro (via admin console) users. It combines unrestricted access and end-to-end encrypted collaboration features in a single app, no matter where users are located.

The enterprise version of the tool was announced in August 2018, with the promise that it would be rolled out to other versions of Wickr, including the free version, in the future. That roll out is confirmed today.

It is important to note that the Wickr/Psiphon tool is a communication optimization, security and anti-censorship tool -- it is not an anti-law enforcement tool. "Wickr provides full transparency to both law enforcement and our users on the type of metadata that is collected through our products, as well as any data requests we receive," CEO & President at Wickr told SecurityWeek.
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Beyonder · Oct 5, 2018

Let's hope Signal introduces something like this.

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