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Snowflake (software)

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Snowflake is a software package for assisting others in circumventing internet censorship by relaying data requests. Snowflake proxy nodes are meant to be created by people in countries where Tor and Snowflake are not blocked. People under censorship then use a Snowflake client (packaged with the Tor Browser and Onion Browser) to access the Tor network, using Snowflake relays as proxy servers. Access to the Tor network can in turn give access to other blocked services (like blocked websites). A Snowflake proxy can be created by either installing a browser extension, installing a stand-alone program or browsing a webpage with an embedded Snowflake proxy. The proxy runs after the user has voluntarily enabled it and the browser or program is connected to the internet.

Snowflake (software) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anti-censorship software This article is about the browser extension. For the data cloud software, see Snowflake Inc. For the unique identifier, see Snowflake ID . Snowflake User interface for the Snowflake browser extension Original author Serene Developers The Tor Project and community Release January 24, 2017 &#59; 9 years ago  ( 2017-01-24 ) [ 1 ] Written in Go , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] JavaScript [ 2 ] [ 4 ]   Included with Tor Browser , [ 1 ] Orbot

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