Kaleidoscope is a Peer-to-Peer application that allows users to run proxy servers and share the addresses of the proxy servers with a network of trusted peers. Kaleidoscope also tunnels Web traffic securely to those proxy servers.

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2009-03-18

Kaleidoscope consists of a Java daemon and a Firefox extension plug-in, both bundled into a self-extracting installer. All you need to run Kaleidoscope is an installation of Java and a Firefox browser (works best with Firefox 3.0 and up.) For installation details and an installation walk-through see the Installation part of the documentation section. Current version of Kaleidoscope is 0.4 Beta Kaleidoscope Installer (All Platforms): ks-install.jar [MD5] Firefox Plug-in Only: kscope.xpi [MD5] Older versions Kaleidoscope 0.2 Beta Kaleidoscope Installer (All Platforms): ks.0.2-install.jar [MD5] Firefox Plug-in Only: kscope.0.2.xpi [MD5]

Documentation

Kaleidoscope Version 0.4 is a Beta version for limited distribution. Below is some information about installing and running Kaleidoscope. More to come soon. A detailed installation guide with snapshots is here How-Tos are here FAQs (Coming Soon):

Publications

More information about the design of Kaleidoscope may be found below. Pass it on: Social networks stymie censors [PDF] Yair Sovran, Alana Libonati, Jinyang Li Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '08), Feb 2008 Unblocking the Internet: Social networks foil censors [PDF] Yair Sovran, Jinyang Li, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian NYU Technical Report TR2008-918

Acknowledgement

This project is partially supported by NSF award 0747052.