Add SOCKS5 as an alternative to Wireguard to mask VPN traffic

[xu-chris]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The repository installation works like a charm. However, in countries with strict VPN rules (you know which), the very unique gets analyzed and detected and the connection to the server gets quickly prohibited when using the Wireguard protocol. Turns out that governments applying those policies with newly generated VPN servers don't lock out the IP address but the usage of the protocol, resulting in devices able to connect to the servers but only VPN traffic gets lost 100%.

Describe the solution you'd like To overcome such Great Firewalls, the SOCKS5 is a handy protocol masking traffic with other protocols, simply overruling the package scans made by governments. The SOCKS5 server acts as a proxy receiving all the traffic, like a VPN server. But it's practically hidden 🥸. So instead of using Wireguard, you're using SOCKS5.

Additional context Shadowsocks seems like a good candidate for this. Some folks have created Docker containers with their library implementation.

Check some Youtube talks to this:

• 32C3 - How the Great Firewall discovers hidden circumvention servers
• Bypass the Chinese firewall with Shadowsocks

[antonw-25]

Thats really cool! Wonder if its possible to have socks run on top of wireguard?

[notthebee]

Unfortunately, I can't give any ETAs, but the feature is being worked on

[antonw-25]

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/19974 found this, is it possible to implement this myself on ansible (i dont know much)

[antonw-25]

Hi! Any updates?

[ajeshbs]

Expecting an update soon

[notthebee]

You can accelerate the process by forking the repository, developing the feature and submitting a pull request 😁