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Shadowsocks is an open-source encrypted proxy project, widely used in mainland China to circumvent Internet censorship. Usage: Shadowsocks accepts JSON format configs like this:

{
    "server":"my_server_ip",
    "server_port":8388,
    "local_port":1080,
    "password":"barfoo!",
    "timeout":600,
    "method":"chacha20-ietf-poly1305"
}

source Wikipedia:

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Tunneling SSH over Shadowsocks

This post on unix.se explains how to tunnel SSH over shadowsocks. This post on sec.se discusses some of the vulnerabilities of shadowsocks (namely its vulnerability to brute force). After reading through the shadowsocks protocol and doing a quick…
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Is shadowsocks traffic encrypted?

I am thinking about using shadowsocks to bypass some Internet restrictions impose by government. In order to that I need to be sure that traffic betweeen shadowsocks client and shadowsocks server encrypted because at the moment my ISP uses SNI to…
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Submitting password over untrusted VPN

Hi，I do not work in IT security and hence am asking some general questions here. I read https://security.stackexchange.com/a/172821/266785 and have questions that would appreciate answers. Is my understanding below correct? So if the password also…
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