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