doxx/darkflare

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1595 stars · 89 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

DarkFlare is a Go command-line tool that tunnels TCP traffic over HTTPS through CDNs like Cloudflare, disguising it as ordinary web traffic to bypass firewalls and censorship. It consists of a client proxy that encodes TCP data into HTTPS requests and a server proxy that decodes them and forwards to local services such as SSH.

Use cases

• bypass corporate firewalls to reach internal SSH servers
• circumvent government censorship and VPN blocking
• tunnel TCP traffic through Cloudflare as HTTPS
• access blocked services from restrictive networks
• disguise non-HTTP traffic as normal web requests

When to choose

• you need to reach TCP services through networks that only allow HTTPS
• you want censorship circumvention that leverages CDN infrastructure that is hard to block
• you prefer a lightweight self-hosted tunnel over a full VPN

When to avoid

• you need high-throughput or low-latency connections, since HTTPS tunneling adds overhead
• you require guaranteed end-to-end encryption without adding your own layer, as tunnel security depends on CDN protection
• you need a license-clarified dependency for commercial use, as the repo has no license

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

proxy vpn networking security cryptography censorship-circumvention privacy networking security self-hosted windows cli go tcp-over-cdn tunneling firewall-piercing cloudflare anti-censorship proxy-server linux macos

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