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Topic: ShadowSOCKS - SSFX Servers Project (beta) - SOCKS5 Proxies (Read 5001 times)

legendary
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https://youtu.be/DsAVx0u9Cw4 ... Dr. WHO < KLF
A demo server is now live! Web Browsing only Ports 80 (http) and 443 (https)

1. Download / Install ShadowSOCKS Client - https://shadowsocks.org/en/download/clients.html

2. Connection > +Add > URI

  Port 81:     ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6ODE=
  Port 1080:  ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6MTA4MA==
  Port 8000:  ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6ODAwMA==
  Port 8008:  ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6ODAwOA==
  Port 8123:  ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6ODEyMw==
  Port 8888:  ss://Y2hhY2hhMjA6MDAwMDAwMDBAOTUuMTYzLjEyMS4xMDM6ODg4OA==

Change timeout to: 300

N.B. This demo server will likely be very slow. Demo server is using http://www.uncensoreddns.org/

3. Recommended Web Browser - Mozilla Firefox.

Edit > Preferences / Options > Advanced > Network > Settings >

"Manual proxy configuration" > SOCKS Host: 127.0.0.1  Port: 1080 >

SOCKS v5 > 'Tick' Remote DNS


4. OK great! Now apply for 1 of 50 SSFX project beta keys, before they are all gone!   Cool
  
legendary
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https://youtu.be/DsAVx0u9Cw4 ... Dr. WHO < KLF
Now extended the free (one year duration - beta) passkey offer to include BitcoinTalk forum users of Member status.

Emercoin users that are able to make a low token 'donation' to validate a passkey can get access to a dedicated Emerproxy ShadowSOCKS SSFX server.

- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14354243

or

- https://forum.bits.media/index.php?/topic/3408-emc-emercoin-pos/page-130#entry400439 (Russian)

Cheers!
legendary
Activity: 2646
Merit: 1720
https://youtu.be/DsAVx0u9Cw4 ... Dr. WHO < KLF
Could you please explain the basic idea behind shadowsocks for the layperson? How does the technology work, what are the advantages, and how does it improve on technologies such as VPN/DNSCRYPT/TOR, or should it be used in combination with them?

If all these questions are answered somewhere else, please point the way to it.

Thank you.

SOCKS5 - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS - in the main only provides Authentication.

To quote the spec. - https://shadowsocks.org/en/spec/protocol.html -

"The shadowsocks protocol is very similar to SOCKS5 but encrypted and simpler."


"Super Fast - Bleeding edge techniques using Asynchronous I/O and Event-driven programming."
"Mobile Ready - Optimized for mobile device and wireless network, without any keep-alive connections."


Unlike a VPN, shadowsocks does not use keep-alive connections. ChaCha20+Poly1305 can be as much as 300% faster than AES-256-GCM with SHA-1 authentication - https://blog.cloudflare.com/do-the-chacha-better-mobile-performance-with-cryptography/


From a user (Client) perspective, once shadowsocks is installed, and you have correctly entered the provided servers settings and passkey etc., you click connect and now have an encrypted SOCKS5 proxy to connect you browser through (usually on localhost:1080), or any other application that supports SOCKS5.

You can run DNScrypt and still connect shadowsocks (using it as a regular SOCKS5 proxy). It is also possible to push (connect) a VPN connection through shadowsocks and/or to connect Tor through shadowsocks and/or your VPN.

On a mobile device, compared to a VPN, shadowsocks will use less CPU, less bandwidth and less battery power.
  
full member
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Could you please explain the basic idea behind shadowsocks for the layperson? How does the technology work, what are the advantages, and how does it improve on technologies such as VPN/DNSCRYPT/TOR, or should it be used in combination with them?

If all these questions are answered somewhere else, please point the way to it.

Thank you.
legendary
Activity: 2646
Merit: 1720
https://youtu.be/DsAVx0u9Cw4 ... Dr. WHO < KLF
ShadowSOCKS - SSFX Servers Project (beta)

"A secure socks5 proxy,
designed to protect your Internet traffic."


I, BitcoinFX am providing secured ShadowSOCKS proxy servers - available to purchase (soon) with Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies, on request.


Firstly, ShadowSOCKS is a free Open Source project available here: https://shadowsocks.org/ - with existing CLIENT software for most platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android, iOS, and OpenWRT.

- https://shadowsocks.org/en/download/clients.html

Users of ShadowSOCKS still require reliable and available SERVERS to connect through, although you are of course welcome to spin-up your own production server.

...

My projects multi-servers package price (for a one year passkey) will be set at $15 and your personal passkey will give you access to an increasing number of available SOCKS5 encrypted servers (TBD), as I continue to build-up the project and it's userbase.

A minimum of 4 servers will be activated within the first 2 Months of operation.

The first servers Geo-locations shall include: Russia, Canada, Sweden and Latvia.

...

If you are already a Member, Senior member, Hero member or of Legendary status here at BitcoinTalk then you are welcome to message me for 1 of 50 free 'lifetime' (one year duration - beta) passkeys.
Please also sign-up for a free tutanota.com webmail address, so that I can easily forward your passkey to you securely, using end-to-end user encryption, as well as to maintain customer contact.

This beta passkey will work for all of the new project servers for the duration of one year, after which time you will be invited to renew your passkey at the standard annual price and before its expiration. (The beta offer is no purchase necessary - first come, first served - subject to your forum member status and of course subject to availability).

The beta server is cloud hosted in Russia and is up and running now - it is intentionally low-RAM for 'testing' purposes and will be slower than the first main production servers - the beta server will most likely be used as the 'demo' server, moving forward.


The chosen encryption cipher is chacha20 (a salsa20 variant) - https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa20#ChaCha_variant

Available outgoing ports for the beta server are TCP: 20-21, 80, 110, 143, 443, 989-990, 993, 995, 1194, 5222-5223, 5228, 8080, 9418

FTP, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, FTPS, IMAPS, POP3S, OpenVPN, XMPP, XMPPS, Android Market, HTTP_alt and git

The beta server is using OpenNIC DNS and can therefore resolve Emercoin, Namecoin and OpenNIC domains through the proxy.

...

The first main production servers will support a wider variety of available ports including Electrum (for Bitcoin) connectivity, IRC and more.



Thank you.


Beta server passkey's remaining: 50 of 50


Shadowsocks is licensed under the APL 2.0  or the GPLv3  or the LGPLv3.
  
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