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Is it possible to ENCRYPT standard SOCKS5 proxies?

HI, I am from a country with incredibly heavy internet censorship. I managed to get some FREE socks 5 proxies like 12.34.56.78:8084. It works well. However, there are still some sites that cant be accessed.

I have done a search, and find out that "Standard Socks5 proxies do not encrypt the connection". Thats why some sites are still blocked. ["Compared to standart Socks 5 proxies SSH Socks encrypt your connection with a AES-256 bit data encryption." but SSH socks and VPN are not free.]

Is it possible to use a software to encrypt the Standard Socks5 proxies?

Thanks a lot! If you come up with an idea, you are helping the whole country!

Upvotes: 5

Views: 9804

Answers (3)

charles
charles

Reputation: 263

You can try some overlay networks, all of them provide free and anonymous proxies:

  • Tor: default relays can be blocked, but there are also plugable transports that are plugins, each of them provide connections with certain characteristics, and you can switch between them easily for testing
  • I2P: I2P do not have connection to the normal internet, but you can change it in the configuration easily, just changing some options in the conf file. After that you can have a socks5 proxy at localhost:4447 to normal internet.
  • Yggdrasil network: Its worth a try to this network. In special i will cite some advantages over others networks:
    • relatively new and are not a treat to regulators yet;
    • not really a "dark" network, so its faster than the others;
    • uses normal IPv6 addressing in a non-overlapping range with the actually used ranges, so you can advertise the IPv6 to the computers on your local network;
    • use many protocols for peering, especially QUIC, that are robust and encrypted by default
    • to use socks5 functionality, check services provided by the community in this page

In my tests the Yggdrasil are the fastest and I2P are the slowest network.

You can test these programs and further install them on a Openwrt router or other network devices like RPi that provide wide proxy for all your connections on your home network.

Upvotes: 0

Tao Yang
Tao Yang

Reputation: 123

check out shadowsocks. But you will need a VPS to run it I think.

Upvotes: 3

DocWiki
DocWiki

Reputation: 3584

I have solved my own question. Here is the method: Buy a VPS, Use SSH (Putty) and socks proxy together to encrypt communication. Hope this helps other people.

Upvotes: -1

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