Good Old SOCKS5: Why It Finally Needed TLS After Three Decades
How ProxiFyre protects SOCKS5 authentication and TCP traffic with TLS, why UDP relay traffic remains separate, and how Alighieri provides a matching TLS listener.
Technical Blog
Engineering notes, deep dives, implementation stories, and practical articles on Windows networking, packet filtering, proxies, VPNs, and related systems work.
Cloudflare WARP via Dante SOCKS5: A Netflix Routing Experiment
A historical WireSock experiment routing Cloudflare WARP through a US Dante SOCKS5 proxy, with checks for tunnel routing and Netflix playback.
Configuring Dante as a SOCKS5 Proxy for Cloudflare WARP on Ubuntu 24
Configure a restricted Dante SOCKS5 UDP relay on Ubuntu 24.04 for one Cloudflare WARP WireGuard endpoint, including firewall and relay-address checks.
ProxiFyre 2.0.1: Deferred Process Lookup and Catch-All SOCKS5 Routing
ProxiFyre 2.0.1 introduced deferred process lookup and a catch-all SOCKS5 rule. This release analysis explains its IPv4, DNS and proxy-carrier limits.
How to Bypass Egypt’s WireGuard Ban
The original Egyptian WireGuard handshake-relay experiment, its SOCKS5 configuration and the later limits of handshake-only proxying.
Dante in Oracle Cloud
Set up a restricted Dante SOCKS5 proxy on an Oracle Cloud Ubuntu instance and test TCP and UDP relay paths separately.