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Privacy Protocol CLI Tooling

Privacy Protocol CLI Tooling

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2026

Cloudflare is developing and open-sourcing tools to simplify the debugging and operation of privacy-preserving protocols. This includes the 'privacy-client' (pvcli) CLI tool, which supports protocols like Oblivious HTTP (OHTTP) by handling complex binary encoding, encryption, and multi-party communication steps. The tool aims to reduce friction in development and incident response for privacy products.

2026

We’re open sourcing our privacy proxy CLI

7/27/2026

This post introduces the 'privacy-client' (pvcli) CLI tool, designed to simplify debugging and operation of privacy protocols like Oblivious HTTP. It handles complex steps such as binary HTTP encoding, encryption, and multi-party communication (relay, gateway, origin) with a single command. The tool provides detailed logging for debugging and is released under the Apache-2.0 License.