Haystack

[Jerry Leichter]

The mainstream press is full of discussion for a new program,  
Haystack, developed by a guy name Austin Heap and sponsored by the  
Censorship Research Center as a new kind of secure proxy.  See http://www.haystacknetwork.com/faq/ 
  for some information.

As described, the program relies on some kind of steganography to hide  
encrypted connections inside of connections to "approved" sites.  It  
was specifically designed to help Iranian dissidents maintain  
connections in the face of active government efforts to locate and  
block proxies and Tor entry and exit nodes.

A Google search reveals absolutely no technical information about  
exactly what Haystack does or now it does it.  The program is  
available on multiple platforms but is closed source - the FAQ linked  
to above discusses this, citing fears that making the source available  
would help censors.

Anyone know anything more about what Haystack is actually doing?

                                                         -- Jerry

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