# Kkevsterrr/geneva

automated censorship evasion for the client-side and server-side

Repository: https://github.com/Kkevsterrr/geneva
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/geneva
Homepage: https://censorship.ai
Language: Python
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: networking, censorship-circumvention, censorship-resistance, geneva
Last push: 2023-11-16T08:35:05+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2487, "days_push": 1021, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2143, forks 201 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:18.552387+00:00)

## What it is
Geneva is a research tool from the University of Maryland that uses a genetic algorithm to automatically evolve packet-manipulation strategies that evade nation-state internet censorship. It runs on one side of the connection (client or server) via a strategy engine and Python API, without needing proxies or external assistance.

## Use cases
- evade internet censorship without a VPN or proxy
- automatically discover censorship evasion strategies
- research how national censors like China's GFW work
- manipulate TCP packets to confuse censoring middleboxes
- test censorship resistance of network traffic
- circumvent DPI-based website blocking

## When to choose
- you are a censorship researcher studying nation-state censors
- you need client-side or server-side-only evasion without external infrastructure
- you want to automatically evolve new packet-level evasion strategies
- you work with Linux and need a Python API for traffic manipulation

## When to avoid
- you need a user-friendly GUI anti-censorship tool for daily browsing
- you are on macOS or Windows (unsupported)
- you need to bypass IP-blocking censorship (out of scope)
- you want a production-ready, non-experimental privacy tool
- you need a simple turnkey VPN or Tor alternative

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: networking, security, machine-learning, cli, developer-tools
- domain: censorship-circumvention, networking, security, artificial-intelligence, privacy
- platform: python, cli
- tags: genetic-algorithm, packet-manipulation, anti-censorship, research-tool, netfilter, linux

## Member repositories
- Kkevsterrr/geneva (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.552387+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 2026-08-30T02:51:14.855158+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Kkevsterrr/geneva (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:18.552387+00:00, sha 924ac5496fb6)
  - homepage: https://censorship.ai (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:24.367147+00:00, sha 9a9db72fcbb4)
  - site_page: https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/about (fetched 2026-08-29T10:31:24.376308+00:00, sha 9242002be61b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.