# doxx/darkflare

DarkFlare Firewall Piercing (TCP over CDN)

Repository: https://github.com/doxx/darkflare
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/darkflare
Language: Go
License Family: other
Topics: censorship-circumvention, golang, proxy-server, security, security-tools, tunnel-client, tunnel-server, tunneling, vpns, firewall-piercing, tcpocdn
Last push: 2026-02-09T11:29:16+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 53/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 66, release rhythm 40, longevity 46
- inputs: {"age_days": 651, "days_push": 205, "days_rel": 603, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 16}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1595, forks 89 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:09.049955+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: proxy, vpn, networking, security, cryptography
- domain: censorship-circumvention, privacy, networking, security, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cli, go
- tags: tcp-over-cdn, tunneling, firewall-piercing, cloudflare, anti-censorship, proxy-server, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- doxx/darkflare (main) score 53

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.049955+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 2026-08-30T03:54:06.443280+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/doxx/darkflare (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:09.049955+00:00, sha 35ca7daad855)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.