MTProxy

I've been following the situation in Belarus since last August and it's really terrible. I admire how so many brave people look death in the eye and still fight for freedom. I have friends there and this allowed me to understand that there's so much potential in Belarus -- there are so many talented, intelligent people getting by in this adversarial environment. So sad to see how Lukashenko's kleptocracy regime wasted so many years and chances for a better future for millions of people. Anyway -- you can help! Most of the communication, coordination and crime-documenting happens on Telegram and the regime tries to block access to this information. You can run Telegram Proxy [0][1]. The installation is fairly straightforward, mostly setup and forget. After setup you can register your proxy with MTProxybot [2], so that people can learn abou

I forgot to mention, Telegram also uses its own URL scheme to pass proxy settings so you can send the link to friends or publish it online and they will only have to click it to start using proxy. No need to dig through the settings and type in complicated IP addresses. The link looks like tg://proxy?arguments Proxy uses MTProto, the same protocol that client uses to talk to the server. It is described here: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto The client connects to the proxy as if it were a server, and proxy just relays encrypted packets to the real server. Also, the client may wrap packets with an obfuscation layer (described below) to prevent signature detection. In exchange, the server tells the client to display a channel of the proxy owner in the contact list while proxy is being used. Proxy source on Github (with Docker image link):