What is this?
Trojan is a censorship-circumvention proxy — an 'unidentifiable mechanism' built to get your traffic across China's Great Firewall (GFW).
Trojan is a censorship-circumvention proxy — an 'unidentifiable mechanism' built to get your traffic across China's Great Firewall (GFW).It calls itself an 'idea' rather than a program — what does that mean?There is no single fixed protocol to name: the idea is to imitate the most common internet service so closely that your traffic behaves identically to it and is never identified.
There is no single fixed protocol to name: the idea is to imitate the most common internet service so closely that your traffic behaves identically to it and is never identified.How do I get it running?The wiki has installation guides for various platforms, plus online documentation; with Docker you can deploy it as a container instead of building from source.
The wiki has installation guides for various platforms, plus online documentation; with Docker you can deploy it as a container instead of building from source.Will my ISP be able to detect or throttle this traffic?That is what the design defends against: multiple protocols over TLS avoid both active and passive detection and ISP QoS throttling.
That is what the design defends against: multiple protocols over TLS avoid both active and passive detection and ISP QoS throttling.So is this an app I put on my devices, or something I run on a server?You host it yourself: Trojan is a self-hosted proxy program written in C++ that you deploy on your own server, not a regular end-user app.
You host it yourself: Trojan is a self-hosted proxy program written in C++ that you deploy on your own server, not a regular end-user app.Why is it called Trojan?The README quips: 'We are the GreatER Fire; we ship Trojan Horses.' Like the myth, the trick is smuggling your traffic inside something that looks completely ordinary.
The README quips: 'We are the GreatER Fire; we ship Trojan Horses.' Like the myth, the trick is smuggling your traffic inside something that looks completely ordinary.Is the project still maintained?The repository is not archived; it dates back to October 2017 and has close to 20,000 GitHub stars.
The repository is not archived; it dates back to October 2017 and has close to 20,000 GitHub stars.What are similar projects?russia-mobile-internet-whitelist, v2ray, panda-vpn-pro, xdp-dns-evadeproxy, Xray-core, gate, mtproto.zig, personal-edge-proxy
russia-mobile-internet-whitelist, v2ray, panda-vpn-pro, xdp-dns-evadeproxy, Xray-core, gate, mtproto.zig, personal-edge-proxyWhich topics is it in?anticensorship, censorship, proxy-server, trojan, gfw, foss, tls, censorship-circumvention, vpn, sysadmin, proxy, china
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