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by ssfdeveloper 10y ago
We unveiled the SSF project about one year ago and we wanted to make a retrospective on its evolution since then. SSF is a network tool and toolkit. Its first version was released in June 2015 and we released 2.2.0 a week ago. Here are some
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SSF one year later: cross platform shell, proxy support and new features(securesocketfunneling.github.io)
2 points by ssfdeveloper 10y ago|1 comments
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
Older versions of Internet Explorer did not support SOCKS5 and Chrome uses SOCKS4 by default (although you can manually specify --proxy-server="socks5://" to force SOCKS5)
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
By the way, we just fixed a build system bug after an issue was reported. If you had any trouble building, please git pull and try again
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
SSF supports SOCKS v4, v4a and v5 (only main SOCKS features that were implemented in SSH). All these versions are necessary for supporting as many web browsers as possible. Old browsers using SOCKS v4 would need to use UDP forwarding for DN
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
Thank you for your interest for our project. There is a page on the website with a benchmark between SSF and SSH. It is a little bit basic. The test is done on TCP port forwarding. Concerning your use case, it would be interesting to suppor
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
stunnel is an interesting software but it does not provide the same features. For the main part, it doesn't seem to multiplex connections.
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
Currently, SSF only supports standard TLS 1.2 handshake but the new networking design will allow to add new protocols easily. The tunnel implementation (currently TLS over TCP) will be modifiable without impacting the higher networking laye
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
We are eager to receive reviews and improvements. We have been working on this project for a while and we have no intention to stop now. A motivation for opensourcing it was to get feedbacks and even contributors from community. Every contr
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
The code is OpenSource so that anyone can review it. IMHO, that's one of the best way to gain trust. But since you asked, "we" are two Belgian C++ enthusiasts happy to contribute to OpenSource community that gave us so much.
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by ssfdeveloper 11y ago
Thanks for the interest you've shown for this project. About the yet-single push : the project was not initially meant to be OpenSourced. Next commits will be more frequent, with more details. About your concerns regarding trust: that&
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SSF, a network tool with new features, performance and security in mind(securesocketfunneling.github.io)
62 points by ssfdeveloper 11y ago|21 comments