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shadowsocks
shadowsocks-rust
Rust2018–2024
shadowsocks / shadowsocks-rust

shadowsocks-rust

A Rust port of shadowsocks

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

A Rust port of shadowsocks

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:02:05 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-08-22 04:27:07 UTC to 2024-10-16 11:10:37 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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BSDobelix·Oct 16, 2024
>I share GP’s expectations too. Sorry but no you don't, since you call into your LAN-network of course you can see your local machines. But if you sit in a LAN and you call outside there should be no traffic leaked to the local network your calling out from (for example airport/motel etc). >Point is, I don’t think of VPNs as something that prevents anyone from seeing my traffic Correct, every middleman (normally ISP) can see that you connect from your External-IP to the other External-IP over an encrypted tunnel (udp or tcp). The expression 'vpn' i nearly as muddled as cloud ;) If you want to obfuscate your traffic you need something like tor/i2p, however it's also possible to tunnel your vpn-tunnel through tor-tunnel's (but i don't see much sense in that since exit-nodes are for sure under more observation and publicly known) Tor and vpn
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traffic can be detected and blocked (for example Chinese firewall) and for that, shadowsocks can be a solution: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust
In Can't trust any VPN these days

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