Ten Years Gone: Revisiting Cloud Storage Transports to Reduce Censored User Burdens
Authors: Paul Vines (Two Six Technologies)
Year: 2024
Issue: 2
Pages: 34–41
Abstract: We present Skyhook, a cloud storage-based censorship circumvention channel providing highly-available short-lived bidirectional communications to assist users to bootstrap higher-performance secret-based circumvention connections (e.g. bridge and proxy requests). In designing Skyhook, we revisit a prior circumvention system (CloudTransport) and redesign its approach to optimize for signaling use cases. We implement Skyhook as a decomposed channel using the Raceboat framework and demonstrate its flexibility for combining with other circumvention channels.
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