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Tor projects on GitHub

Anonymity network relays, proxies, and circumvention tools.

As of , the most-starred Tor projects on GitHub are the-book-of-secret-knowledge (250.7K stars), fanqiang (54.2K stars) and streisand (23.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Tor repositories with 419.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was the-book-of-secret-knowledge, with +311 stars in a day.

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+390Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+311

the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge · ★ 250.7K

A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

+28

fanqiang

bannedbook/fanqiang · ★ 54.2K

A collection of tutorials and tools for circumventing China's internet censorship (翻墙/科学上网), covering proxy protocols like V2Ray, Shadowsocks, SSR and Trojan, plus a bundled all-in-one client package for Windows.

+12

portmaster

safing/portmaster · ★ 13.9K

Portmaster is a free, open-source application firewall for Windows and Linux that intercepts all network traffic on your machine, letting you monitor and block connections per app, filter DNS, and block trackers and malware with good defaults out of the box.

+10

vpn-configs-for-russia

igareck/vpn-configs-for-russia · ★ 9.2K

A free, auto-updated collection of VPN and Tor configurations tested to work in Russia, for bypassing Roskomnadzor's black- and whitelist blocking.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

    250.7K
  2. #2 · bannedbook/fanqiang

    fanqiang

    A collection of tutorials and tools for circumventing China's internet censorship (翻墙/科学上网), covering proxy protocols like V2Ray, Shadowsocks, SSR and Trojan, plus a bundled all-in-one client package for Windows.

    54.2K
  3. #3 · StreisandEffect/streisand

    streisand

    Streisand is an automation tool that takes a server on the cloud provider of your choice and nearly automatically turns it into a private, censorship-resistant VPN node.

    23.4K
  1. 4

    awesome-tunneling

    21.9Kanderspitman/awesome-tunneling · Python

    A curated list of tunneling tools and services (alternatives to ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, and ZeroTier) that let you expose a local server to the internet, with a focus on self-hosting.

  2. 5

    ZeroNet

    18.8KHelloZeroNet/ZeroNet · JavaScript

    ZeroNet is open-source software for a decentralized web: it lets you publish and visit websites that use Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network for distribution instead of a traditional hosting provider.

  3. 6

    portmaster

    13.9Ksafing/portmaster · Go

    Portmaster is a free, open-source application firewall for Windows and Linux that intercepts all network traffic on your machine, letting you monitor and block connections per app, filter DNS, and block trackers and malware with good defaults out of the box.

  4. 7

    whoogle-search

    11.6Kbenbusby/whoogle-search · Python

    Whoogle was a self-hosted metasearch engine that fetched Google search results and stripped out ads, JavaScript, AMP links, cookies, and IP tracking. As of July 2026 it is officially dead: Google closed off the last way to fetch results without JavaScript, so the app no longer returns any search results.

  5. 8

    proxychains-ng

    10.7Krofl0r/proxychains-ng · C

    ProxyChains-NG is a UNIX program that hooks network-related libc functions in dynamically linked programs via LD_PRELOAD and redirects their TCP connections through SOCKS4a/5 or HTTP proxies. It is the continuation of the unmaintained proxychains project.

  6. 9

    vpn-configs-for-russia

    9.2Kigareck/vpn-configs-for-russia

    A free, auto-updated collection of VPN and Tor configurations tested to work in Russia, for bypassing Roskomnadzor's black- and whitelist blocking.

  7. 10

    privacyguides.org

    4.3Kprivacyguides/privacyguides.org · Markdown

    Privacy Guides is a non-profit, community-run website and knowledge base that explains digital surveillance threats and recommends privacy and security tools to help people protect their data online.

  8. 11

    mlmvpn_android

    411mlmvpn/mlmvpn_android · Kotlin

    MLM VPN is an Android app that bundles many independent connectivity engines — Xray-core (VLESS/VMess/Trojan), AmneziaWG, WARP, Psiphon, Tor, Geph, OpenVPN and a custom MASQUE-based engine — behind one UI, plus an adaptive per-app router, a Cloudflare Worker control panel, and a game-latency booster, aimed at bypassing network restrictions.

  9. 12

    GoLiveBypass

    271bezumiya/GoLiveBypass · TypeScript

    GoLiveBypass is a tool that restores Discord's Go Live screen share and camera for users connecting from Brazil, by routing the Discord process through a non-Brazilian exit (Tor, a tested free proxy, or a private WireGuard/ProtonVPN tunnel) so Discord's servers no longer see a Brazilian IP.

  10. 13

    WhiteAestherMobile

    262WhiteDNS/WhiteAestherMobile · Rust

    WhiteAestherMobile is the native Android client for the Aether encrypted route engine. It probes for a working path out of restrictive or censored networks and routes your device's traffic through it.

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