irl / fteproxy

programmable proxy for censorship circumvention

fteproxy

• homepage: https://fteproxy.org
• source code: https://github.com/kpdyer/fteproxy
• publication: https://kpdyer.com/publications/ccs2013-fte.pdf

Overview

fteproxy provides transport-layer protection to resist keyword filtering, censorship and discrimantory routing policies. Its job is to relay datastreams, such as web browsing traffic, by encoding the stream into messages that satisfy a user-specified regular expression.

fteproxy is powered by Format-Transforming Encryption [1] and was presented at CCS 2013.

[1] Protocol Misidentification Made Easy with Format-Transforming Encryption, Kevin P. Dyer, Scott E. Coull, Thomas Ristenpart and Thomas Shrimpton

Quick Start

On Linux/OSX, use pip to install fteproxy.

pip install fteproxy

On Windows, download pre-compiled binaries, located at: https://fteproxy.org/download

Dependencies

Dependencies for building from source:

• Python 2.7.x: https://python.org/
• fte 0.0.x: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/fte
• pyptlib 0.0.x: https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/pyptlib.git
• obfsproxy 0.2.x: https://gitweb.torproject.org/pluggable-transports/obfsproxy.git
• Twisted 13.2.x: https://twistedmatrix.com/

Running

For platform-specific examples of how to install dependencies see BUILDING.md.

There is nothing to build for fteproxy --- it is Python-only project. To run fteproxy, you need to do only the following.

git clone https://github.com/kpdyer/fteproxy.git
cd fteproxy
./bin/fteproxy

Documentation

See: https://fteproxy.org/documentation

Author

Please contact Kevin P. Dyer ([email protected]), if you have any questions.