Non-bridge Censorship Circumvention Tools
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UNFINISHED[edit]
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 |
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GoAgent![]() ![]() |
? | yes | N/A | ? | proxy/if? | ? | google app engine account | ? | ? | site![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Shadowsocks![]() |
? | yes | N/A | yes | proxy | ?+encrypt | server for proxy | ? | no | sources![]() ![]() |
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![]() ![]() |
? | 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]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190420181707/http://www.web2mail.com/lite/welcome.php
- IP over mail tunnel
Static Web Mirrors[edit]
- https://www.archive.org
- https://archive.ph/
- https://cachedview.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190319140019/http://www.cachedpages.com/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20170222180651/http://www.google-cache.de/
Single Site solutions[edit]
Protocol Tunneling[edit]
ICMP[edit]
DNS[edit]
SSL[edit]
Anonymous P2P[edit]
- Freedom Network
- Onion Routing
- MixMaster
- Babel
- Mixminion
- Zach Brown's Onion
- PipeNet
- IronKey
- MorphMix
- Tarzan
- Tor
- Hornet (Modified Tor)
- I2P
Unsorted[edit]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210126155918/https://jaxov.com/2009/09/how-to-unblock-any-website-in-ubuntu-via-ultrasurf-linux/
- https://socialsourcecommons.org/tool/show/3368/
- https://www.vpngate.net/en/
- Infranet
- NetCamo
- Collage
collage
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060424152838/http://www.peek-a-booty.org/pbhtml/index.php
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070911174435/http://www.brain-pro.de/Seiten/six/sixfour.html
- freedom systems
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TriangleBoy
- streisand
- Script to automate deployment of some of these tools.
- https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/24340-paper.pdf
- https://github.com/OperatorFoundation
- https://github.com/BrassHornCommunications/go-packetflagon/
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]
- https://web.archive.org/web/20161108060949/https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-reports/leaping-over-firewall-review-censorship-circumvention-tools
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_circumvention
- https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec10/tech/full_papers/Burnett.pdf
- jondonym Japan On https://git.gnunet.org/bibliography.git/plain/docs/koepsell-wpes2004_0.pdf
- Cirripede
paper
- Decoy Routing
- Morphmix
java
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.)