Shadowsocks
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Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named "clowwindy", and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since. Shadowsocks provides an encrypted equivalent of a SOCKS proxy. A Shadowsocks client converts the Shadowsocks connection to SOCKS5 for local use. Unlike an SSH tunnel, Shadowsocks can also proxy User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic.
Key facts
- Software.ver layout
- stacked
- Software.name
- Shadowsocks
- Software.logo
- Shadowsocks logo.png
- Software.author
- Clowwindy
- Software.license
- MIT License
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Official website
Shadowsocks | A fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.
A fast tunnel proxy that helps you bypass firewalls.
shadowsocks.org →Link to the official site · 868 chars · not written by Vinony
Source code
Check all the options via -h . You can also use a [Configuration] file instead. If you installed the snap package, you have to prefix the commands with shadowsocks. , like this:
Excerpt from the source-code README · 2,155 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- shadowsocks.org
- Image
- Shadowsocks for Android.png
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- source code repository URL
- github.com/shadowsocks
- software version identifier
- 1.24.0
- Commons category
- Shadowsocks
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9 sectionsContents
- Takedown
- Server implementations
- Client implementations
- Net::Shadowsocks
- ShadowsocksR
- Similar projects
- See also
- References
- External links
Shadowsocks is a free and open-source encryption protocol project, widely used in China to circumvent Internet censorship. It was created in 2012 by a Chinese programmer named "clowwindy", and multiple implementations of the protocol have been made available since. Shadowsocks provides an encrypted equivalent of a SOCKS proxy. A Shadowsocks client converts the Shadowsocks connection to SOCKS5 for local use. Unlike an SSH tunnel, Shadowsocks can also proxy User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic.
== Takedown == On 22 August 2015, "clowwindy" announced in a GitHub thread that they had been contacted by the police and could no longer maintain the project. The code of the project was subsequently branched with a removal notice. Three days later, on 25 August, another proxy application, GoAgent, also had its GitHub repository removed. The removal of the projects received media attention, with some speculating about a possible connection between those removals and a distributed-denial-of-service attack targeting GitHub which occurred several days later. Danny O'Brien, from Electronic Frontier Foundation, published a statement on the matter.
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