# bigeagle/gohop

A VPN implemention in golang, with crypto and obfuscation in nature.

Repository: https://github.com/bigeagle/gohop
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gohop
Language: Shell
License Family: other
Last push: 2019-02-09T02:11:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4822, "days_push": 2763, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- 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 1364, forks 193 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:30.993577+00:00)

## What it is
GoHop is a VPN implemented in Go with built-in encryption and traffic obfuscation, designed to evade deep packet inspection and censorship systems like the GFW. It uses pre-shared key authentication, random port/protocol hopping, and traffic shaping, running on Linux tun/tap devices.

## Use cases
- bypass the great firewall of china
- vpn that evades deep packet inspection
- obfuscated vpn to escape censorship
- hide vpn traffic from dpi detection
- circumvent blocked openvpn and ssh tunnels
- self-hosted anti-censorship vpn server

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight self-hosted VPN specifically designed to evade DPI and machine-learning-based traffic classification
- you are on Linux and want port/protocol hopping to avoid protocol fingerprinting
- you want a VPN without SSL/TLS handshake signatures that censors can detect

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, actively developed VPN - the project has been inactive since 2019
- you need Windows or macOS support - it only works on Linux tun/tap
- you need a production-grade, audited VPN solution - it has no license and reinvents its own crypto
- you just need a general-purpose VPN without censorship concerns - use WireGuard or OpenVPN instead

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: vpn, cryptography, networking, security, privacy
- domain: privacy, censorship-circumvention, networking, security
- platform: go, cli
- tags: vpn, anti-censorship, dpi-evasion, tun-tap, traffic-obfuscation, gfw, linux

## Member repositories
- bigeagle/gohop (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.993577+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 2026-08-30T04:41:19.944377+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bigeagle/gohop (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.993577+00:00, sha 51c1ead3870f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.