We’re open sourcing our privacy proxy CLI

Cloudflare has open-sourced pvcli, a debugging tool for privacy-preserving protocols like Oblivious HTTP — the technology powering Apple's Private Relay and Microsoft's Edge Secure Network. The command-line tool solves a long-standing headache: before pvcli, developers had to manually parse binary encoding across multiple protocol steps, writing custom scripts and cross-referencing RFCs. Cloudflare reports the new tool collapses all of that into a single command, with detailed logging when needed. Released under Apache-2.0 and open to contributions, pvcli is designed in the style of curl and is coming with plans for expanded support of additional privacy protocols.

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