

Psiphon 1, the original version of the Web proxy platform, was designed to run on Windows, and allowed a non-expert computer user in a country that does not filter the Internet to provide basic circumvention services to specific individuals from countries that do. It is designed primarily to facilitate the operation of a large scale, blocking-resistant circumvention service for those who lack the ability to install and use more advanced tools. The current version of the Psiphon server software runs only on Linux, and is much more difficult to install and administer than most other proxies.


supports access to HTTPS destination sites.It differs from other proxy software (such as CGIProxy and Glype) in various ways, depending on how it is configured on the server. Psiphon is an open-source Web proxy platform that has changed quite a bit over the past few years.
