Yoggie CEO Blog

A few of you approached me recently, asking me why I didn’t post any new update on this blog.
Well, beyond the apology, I can only say – I was busy. Busy. And even very busy.
We are working on few new revolutionary products and all of us here are totally in it. Very simple.

You now may be curious - “What are they cooking over there for so long?” and I will try to direct you to places you might find new Yoggie offerings soon.
And it’s not that we are done with the existing Gatekeeper product. You probably know that recently (just a few weeks ago) the Online Anonymity application was added to all our install base.
Every Gatekeeper now includes application number 13 (or 14 for the Gatekeeper Pro line) which provides an integrated TOR client and servers (http://www.torproject.org/). This means that all the traffic departing from the Gatekeeper is encrypted all the way up to the last TOR server that decrypt the information and issues a local connection to the requested Web server. It even allows the user to select country IP and to appear as an IP address from a specific geographic location. For example, a user connecting from Starbucks at Boston, can appear to a German Web Site as a German user with a German IP address, etc.

Who needs it?
If you surf from a public network (wireless or wired) and you want to make sure that no one around will sniff your web activity.
Or if you want to see how a US Web site appears to US user, while you are actually in London or anywhere outside the USA for instance.

Yes, using TOR on the way to the destination Web server will probably introduce some slowdown but:
1. It may be your only way to view locale-dependent content on that Web server. Surfing from a remote country may hide local content.
2. Each time you enable the online anonymity function of the Gatekeeper, it establishes a new routing using different TOR servers, so performance may improve if you get powerful TOR servers assigned by the TOR network.

So, as you see, we keep improving and adding more functionality to the Gatekeeper, and we are busy extending our product line offering. To keep you returning to this blog to read the next news, I will not mention the products today, but will tell you it’s in the field of data security and specifically in securing removable storage.

That’s it for today. Please do not hesitate to contact me with queries, request for information, etc. and I will do my best, to get back quickly,

Cheers,
Shlomo.