Tag Archives: WireSock

WireSock Secure Connect 3.x: Beyond the Release Notes

By | April 18, 2026

On April 8, 2026, WireSock Secure Connect 3.4.4 was released as the first official version in the 3.x branch. For us, this is more than just another update. It marks a transition to a new architectural foundation, one with clearer separation between components, stronger isolation, and new capabilities that both everyday users and administrators have been asking for… Read More »

Cloudflare WARP via Dante SOCKS5: Unlocking Netflix Catalogs Abroad

By | September 27, 2025

When you find yourself abroad — on vacation, a business trip, or after relocating — you may suddenly discover that your usual Netflix library has “shrunk.” Some series and movies disappear, others appear, and certain premieres are released only in the US or the UK. The reason is regional licensing: Netflix catalogs differ from country to country, so… Read More »

Configuring Dante as a SOCKS5 Proxy for Cloudflare WARP on Ubuntu 24

By | September 27, 2025

In this post we’ll walk through a stripped-down Dante SOCKS5 setup designed specifically for running WireGuard WARP traffic through a proxy. The idea is simple: we don’t need a full SOCKS proxy that handles every possible connection — just a lean, safe configuration that lets WARP send its UDP packets while blocking everything else. This keeps the setup… Read More »

Unhelpful IP Helper: A Handle Leak Story

By | August 13, 2025

After my post about a CancelIoEx bug, I decided to cover another defect in Windows system components—this time in IP Helper (the part of the Windows API responsible for network statistics and connection tables). Among other things, this API lets you map packets intercepted at the network level to local processes. You’d think it’s a battle-tested mechanism running… Read More »

BoringTun based WireGuard client for Windows

By | October 31, 2021

In early 2019, Cloudflare introduced BoringTun, an implementation of the WireGuard protocol written in Rust. The project code is distributed under the BSD-3-Clause license and consists of two main parts: Later in 2019 Cloudflare released the free VPN “for people who don’t know what V.P.N. stands for” called WARP. Nowadays WARP/BoringTun is successfully deployed on millions of macOS, Windows, iOS and Android consumer devices… Read More »