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shadowsocks
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===========
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Current version: 1.3.0
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shadowsocks is a lightweight tunnel proxy which can help you get through firewalls
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Other ports and clients can be found [here](https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/wiki/Ports-and-Clients).
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Usage
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First, make sure you have Python 2.6 or 2.7.
$ python --version
Python 2.6.8
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Install Shadowsocks.
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pip install shadowsocks
Create a file named `config.json`, with the following content.
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{
"server":"my_server_ip",
"server_port":8388,
"local_port":1080,
"password":"barfoo!",
"timeout":600,
"method":null
}
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Explaination of the fields:
server your server IP (IPv4/IPv6), notice that your server will listen to this IP
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server_port server port
local_port local port
password a password used to encrypt transfer
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timeout in seconds
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method encryption method, "bf-cfb", "aes-256-cfb", "des-cfb", "rc4", etc. Default is table
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`cd` into the directory of `config.json`. Run `ssserver` on your server. To run it in the background, run
`nohup ssserver > log &`.
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On your client machine, run `sslocal`.
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Change the proxy setting in your browser into
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protocol: socks5
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: your local_port
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Command line args
------------------
You can use args to override settings from `config.json`.
sslocal -s server_name -p server_port -l local_port -k password -m bf-cfb
ssserver -p server_port -k password -m bf-cfb
ssserver -c /etc/shadowsocks/config.json
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Encryption
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------------
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If you want to use non-default encryption method like "bf-cfb", please install [M2Crypto](http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/MeTooCrypto).
Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install python-m2crypto
Others:
pip install M2Crypto
Performance
------------
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You may want to install gevent for better performance.
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$ sudo apt-get install python-gevent
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Or:
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$ sudo apt-get install libevent-dev python-pip
$ sudo pip install gevent
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License
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MIT
Bugs and Issues
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Please visit [issue tracker](https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/issues?state=open)
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Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/shadowsocks
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Also see [troubleshooting](https://github.com/clowwindy/shadowsocks/wiki/Troubleshooting)