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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
Wickr Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher Dowd, Belleville, NJ (US);
Christopher Lalonde, Austin, TX (US);
Thomas Michael Leavy, River Edge, NJ (US);
Arjun Bhatnagar, Matawan, NJ (US);
Dipakkumar R. Kasabwala, Edison, NJ (US);
David Lautz, New York, NY (US);
Matthew Downs, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A solution for circumventing censorship is disclosed. A first device connects to a first server hosted in a content delivery network (CDN). The CDN routes the first device's connection request to the first server. The first server responds by providing the first device with a configuration file that contains a plurality of second servers for the first device to access. The first device disconnects from the first server and hops between one or more of the plurality of second servers contained in the configuration file. By distributing the configuration file from a first server hosted in a CDN, the first device obfuscates the true endpoint of the connection. Thus, the first device obtains the configuration file without drawing the ire of censors. By hopping from server-to-server, the first device stays one step ahead of censors. Accordingly, a multi-prong approach to staying a step ahead of eavesdroppers, sniffers, and censors is described.