# cbeuw/Cloak

A censorship circumvention tool to evade detection by authoritarian state adversaries

Repository: https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cloak
Language: Go
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: shadowsocks, censorship-circumvention, openvpn, pluggable-transports, tor, gfw, censorship, vpn, proxy
Last push: 2026-05-29T22:14:31+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 84, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2840, "days_push": 96, "days_rel": 406, "gap_med": 142.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4068, forks 357 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.166132+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, vpn, cryptography, networking, security
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking, security
- platform: windows, go, cross-platform
- tags: pluggable-transport, shadowsocks, openvpn, tor, gfw, anti-censorship, traffic-obfuscation, steganography, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- cbeuw/Cloak (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.166132+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:32.167804+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.166132+00:00, sha 0cba9036d835)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.