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torsocks
Library to torify application - NOTE: upstream has been moved to https://gitweb.torproject.org/torsocks.git
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streisand
Discontinued Streisand sets up a new server running your choice of WireGuard, OpenConnect, OpenSSH, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks, sslh, Stunnel, or a Tor bridge. It also generates custom instructions for all of these services. At the end of the run you are given an HTML file with instructions that can be shared with friends, family members, and fellow activists.
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wstunnel
Tunnel all your traffic over Websocket or HTTP2 - Bypass firewalls/DPI - Static binary available
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x-ui
Discontinued Lightweight Xray panel with multi-protocol and multi-user on the same port,supports English language and Telegram bot. Easy to use and easy to manage. (by FranzKafkaYu)
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shadowsocks-libev
Bug-fix-only libev port of shadowsocks. Future development moved to shadowsocks-rust
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ProxySU
Xray,V2ray，Trojan，NaiveProxy, Trojan-Go, ShadowsocksR(SSR),Shadowsocks-libev及相关插件,MTProto+TLS 一键安装工具，windows下用（一键科学上网）
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How VLESS Reality Made VPNs Unblockable by Pretending to Be Google
A developer who goes by RPRX on GitHub released a thing called Reality as part of the Xray-core project. And what it does is, instead of trying to look-like-Google in a clever statistical way, it just establishes a real TLS connection to real google.com.
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Unlocking Free WiFi on British Airways
This is basically what Xray [1] does. For any connection request matching a particular SNI and not presenting a secret key, it proxies the entire SSL handshake and data to a camouflage website. Otherwise it can be used as a regular proxy disguised as SSL traffic to that website (with the camouflage website being set as the SNI host, so for all purposes legit traffic to that host).
It's meant to get around the great firewall in China, so it has to avoid the GFW's active probers that check to make sure the external website is a (legit) host. However a friend was able to get it to work American's in-flight firewall if the proxy SNI is set to Google Analytics.
[1] https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core
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How to install v2ray on Fedora 42
https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/releases/tag/v1.6.2
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Как я поднял свой VPN
wget https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/releases/download/v25.3.6/Xray-linux-64.zip unzip Xray-linux-64.zip chmod +x xray mv xray /usr/bin/xray
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17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist
> something standard and indistinguishable, like QUIC, DTLS or TLS1.3, for their transport layer.
Exactly this does exist, search for xray / xtls-reality.
A node pretends to be a valid web site, with a valid third-party TLS certificate (like a CDN node serving that website), until a correct secret key is presented, then it looks like regular TLS-encrypted web traffic.
E.g. https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core — most documentation, sadly but expectedly, is in Chinese and Russian, because these folks seem to need this most.
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WireGuard client that exposes itself as a HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy
- [xray](https://github.com/xtls/xray-core)
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Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level
I have been researching VPN protocols that work in China and found that Xray [0] is the most recommended route to escape the GFW. An ideal VPN setup is one where packets appear as normal https traffic. Some VPN setups take it a step further and proxy the traffic through Cloudflare. Setting all this up is nowhere as easy as Wireguard. Coincidentally, I came across this project on Github earlier today which is an obfuscation proxy for Wireguard [1], but I haven't found any information about how well it works.
[0] https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core
[1] https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go
- How to get Mullvad working when it is blocked
- 你要隐私干什么！
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tls configs are unresponsive and have high ping
Take a look at this thread as an example: https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core/issues/2059
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XTLS/Xray-core is an open source project licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Xray-core is Go.
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