Shadowsocks
| Shadowsocks | |||||||||
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| Original author(s) | Clowwindy | ||||||||
| Initial release | 20 April 2012 | ||||||||
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| Written in | Python; Rust; C#; Kotlin; Swift; Objective-C; C; Go; C++ | ||||||||
| Operating system | Unix-like operating system Microsoft Windows Android iOS | ||||||||
| Type | communication protocol free software Internet censorship circumvention | ||||||||
| Website | shadowsocks | ||||||||
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 is not a proxy on its own, but (typically) is the client software to help connect to a third-party SOCKS5 proxy. Once connected, internet traffic can then be directed through the proxy. Unlike an SSH tunnel, Shadowsocks can also proxy User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic.