# shadowsocks/shadowsocks-go

go port of shadowsocks (Deprecated)

Repository: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-go
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/shadowsocks-go
Homepage: http://shadowsocks.github.io/shadowsocks-go
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2020-04-09T06:44:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5053, "days_push": 2337, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6546, forks 3218 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:45.107003+00:00)

## What it is
A Go port of the Shadowsocks lightweight encrypted tunnel proxy, providing local SOCKS5 client and remote server binaries to bypass firewalls. The project is deprecated in favor of go-shadowsocks2.

## Use cases
- bypass firewalls with an encrypted proxy tunnel
- run a shadowsocks server in Go
- set up a local SOCKS5 proxy client
- tunnel traffic through an encrypted proxy

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight Go-based shadowsocks implementation for legacy deployments

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - use go-shadowsocks2 instead
- you need modern, secure cipher support - this project is deprecated and its protocol is outdated

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: abandoned
- function: proxy, cryptography, networking, security
- domain: privacy, censorship-circumvention, networking, security
- platform: windows, go, cli
- tags: shadowsocks, socks5-proxy, tunnel-proxy, firewall-circumvention, deprecated, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- shadowsocks/shadowsocks-go (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.107003+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 2026-08-29T17:44:05.929021+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-go (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:45.107003+00:00, sha 0dc2c67e18a8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.