cbeuw/Cloak
A censorship circumvention tool to evade detection by authoritarian state adversaries observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
63/100
- Activity 84
- Release rhythm 16
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 142.0
- age_days: 2840
- days_rel: 406
- days_push: 96
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
4068 stars · 357 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Cloak is a pluggable transport that masquerades proxied traffic as ordinary HTTPS web browsing to evade deep packet inspection and censorship. It works alongside proxies like Shadowsocks, OpenVPN, and Tor, acting as a reverse proxy with multi-user support and traffic management.
Use cases
- bypass the great firewall
- hide VPN traffic from DPI
- make my proxy look like normal web browsing
- evade censorship in authoritarian countries
- disguise shadowsocks traffic as HTTPS
- run a censorship-resistant proxy server
- tunnel OpenVPN through a censorable network
When to choose
- you need traffic that resists deep packet inspection and active probing
- you already run Shadowsocks, OpenVPN, or Tor and want to obfuscate it
- you need multi-user support with bandwidth and usage controls on one port
When to avoid
- you just need a plain VPN without obfuscation
- you want a standalone proxy rather than a transport wrapper
- you need a GUI-friendly consumer VPN solution
Facets
service · maturity active
proxy vpn cryptography networking security censorship-circumvention privacy networking security windows go cross-platform pluggable-transport shadowsocks openvpn tor gfw anti-censorship traffic-obfuscation steganography linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0cba9036d835
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| cbeuw/Cloak | main | 63 |
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