Shadowsocks Rust is an open-source, high-performance implementation of the Shadowsocks secure proxy protocol written in Rust, designed to provide fast, encrypted SOCKS5-based tunneling to help users bypass network censorship and protect privacy. Shadowsocks itself is widely used to route internet traffic through an encrypted proxy, allowing secure access to blocked or restricted content while mitigating simple traffic-inspection techniques. By leveraging Rust, this implementation emphasizes memory safety, concurrency, and efficiency, making it suitable for both client and server use on devices ranging from small embedded systems to large servers. The repository includes multiple binaries such as sslocal for local SOCKS5 proxy clients and ssserver for remote proxy servers, giving developers flexible components to build customized proxy setups. It also supports modern asynchronous networking patterns, optional DNS handling, transparent proxy modes, tunneling, and advanced cipher methods.
Features
- Rust-based implementation of the Shadowsocks encrypted SOCKS5 proxy
- High performance and memory-safe asynchronous networking
- Multiple components: local proxy (sslocal) and remote server (ssserver)
- Support for modern cipher suites and optional DNS proxying
- Configurable proxy modes including transparent and tunnel modes
- Portable builds for Linux, macOS, Windows, and container environments