shadowsocks is a lightweight tunnel proxy which can help you get through firewalls.
Other ports and clients can be found here.
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":"table"
}
Explanation 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, which is not secure. "aes-256-cfb" is recommended
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 settings in your browser to
protocol: socks5
hostname: 127.0.0.1
port: your local_port
Notice: If you want to use encryption methods other than "table", please install M2Crypto (See Encryption Section).
It's recommended to use shadowsocks with AutoProxy or Proxy SwitchySharp.
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
Default encryption method table, which is not secure, is not recommended. Please use "aes-256-cfb" or "bf-cfb". "rc4" is not secure, either, please don't use it.
List of all encryption methods:
- aes-128-cfb
- aes-192-cfb
- aes-256-cfb
- bf-cfb
- camellia-128-cfb
- camellia-192-cfb
- camellia-256-cfb
- cast5-cfb
- des-cfb
- idea-cfb
- rc2-cfb
- rc4
- seed-cfb
- table
If you want to use encryption method other than "table", please install M2Crypto.
Ubuntu:
apt-get install python-m2crypto
Others:
apt-get install openssl-dev swig
pip install M2Crypto
Please notice that some encryption methods are not available on some environments.
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
MIT
Please visit issue tracker
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/shadowsocks
Also see troubleshooting