Non-bridge Censorship Circumvention Tools

List of Censorship Circumvention Tools that may be helpful to get around network bans. Draft.

UNFINISHED[edit]

Documentation for this is incomplete. Contributions are happily considered! See this for potential alternatives.

Introduction[edit]

This page is about the censorship circumvention tools other than Tor Bridges. If you are not experiencing a real censorship (for example, only some ports are blocked by your ISP), then something simpler can be tried.

Tools[edit]

Tool	client language	works on Linux	works on Wine	OS	Interface	Transport	uses Service	Tor works	runs through proxy	notes
GoAgent 1	?	yes	N/A	?	proxy/if?	?	google app engine account	?	?	site and sources deleted (Similar to meek.)
Shadowsocks	?	yes	N/A	yes	proxy	?+encrypt	server for proxy	?	no	sources deleted, runs on routers
scotty transporter	java	yes	N/A	?	proxy	?	php webhosting, server with java, google appengine account	?	?	-
IP over mail tunnel	C or C++	?	?	yes	?	email/protocol?	maybe an email account?	?	no?	-
Psiphon 1	?	no	?	no?	?	?	?	?	?	-
Lahana	uses an ipsec vpn client	yes	N/A	?	if	ipsec vpn	amazon aws account	?	?	-
Telex	?	?	?	?	?	tls	cooperating isp	yes	?	only a concept
Iodine	C or C++	yes	N/A	yes	if	dns	domain and dns server	?	no	very small, runs on routers
your freedom	java	yes	N/A	?	socks,if	?, dns	free account	?	https(s), socks 4/5	has various settings
tor	C++,javascript	yes	N/A	yes	proxy,if()	tls,pt	-	yes/N/A	yes	tor over tor is bad
freegate	?	?	?	?	?	http(s),tls	?	?	?	officially only available for china & Iran, questionable trustworthyness
VPN Gate	?	yes	N/A	no	if	vpn	-	?	?	-

Webproxies[edit]

dynaweb webproxy, questionable trustworthyness (https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Censorship.pdf), own censorship rules
Proxify
Google Translate

Email[edit]

Static Web Mirrors[edit]

Single Site solutions[edit]

Protocol Tunneling[edit]

ICMP[edit]

Ping Tunnel

DNS[edit]

SSL[edit]

STunnel

Anonymous P2P[edit]

Freedom Network
Onion Routing
MixMaster
Babel
Mixminion
Zach Brown's Onion
PipeNet
IronKey
MorphMix
Tarzan
Tor
Hornet (Modified Tor)
I2P

Source

Unsorted[edit]

Tor's Pluggable Transports[edit]

Flash Proxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_proxy
Meek https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/meek
more and more

Research and Proof of Concept[edit]

Questions[edit]

Type? (VPN, proxy, ssh?)
Usable with Open Source Software, without any proprietary client? (OpenVPN etc.)
Is there a Linux version?
Does it work in WINE?
Can Whonix^™ (Tor) get tunneled through it? (Whonix^™ (Tor) can get tunneled thought a VPN running on the host and also supports all kinds of proxy settings (http(s), socks4(a)/5).)
Instructions for using it with Whonix?

TODO[edit]

Add Lantern to the above table. (Already partially documented in Whonix wiki, see Lantern.)

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