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- Doxx/Darkflare: DarkFlare TCPoCDN (TCP over CDN)
- List of ngrok/Cloudflare Tunnel alternatives and other tunneling software and services. Focus on self-hosting.
chisel - SSH under the hood, but still uses a custom client binary. Supports auto certs from LetsEncrypt. Written in Go.
- Chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
Looking at the perf https://github.com/jpillora/chisel/blob/master/test/bench/pe... it looks not too bad!
I have a few TCP based utilities. I was thinking I need to make websocket equivalents for it to work on the web, but happy to see this project, I will be evaluating this soon, it should save me some time.
Thanks for sharing!
- Actual SSH over HTTPS
Personally I use https://github.com/jpillora/chisel as a reverse Proxy through nginx, then connect through it using OpenVPN to bypass a similarly restrictive firewall. But this discussion is filled with other, similar hacks, I may have to try some of them.
- List of your reverse proxied services
To keep everything secure, each chisel client has a separate TLS private key. That lets my reverse proxy authenticate the client before allowing a connection to the Chisel backend service. And on the Chisel backend service side, the --auth= part allows that particular client to bind to the specific XXX port within that Docker container. https://github.com/jpillora/chisel/blob/master/example/users.json
- Ask HN: What's the big deal with Go (Golang)?
I love it in the context of hacking actually. When working on HackTheBox machines or other CTFs you sometimes need to deploy tools onto the machine like these:
* https://github.com/jpillora/chisel
- apps that changed your life
rclone and chisel. rclone is a high quality swiss-army knife for selfhosting. It does a lot of things and it does all of those things surprisingly well. chisel provides an TCP/UDP tunnel over websockets. When heroku used to be free, I had a couple of chisel instances running on Heroku, which I would use, occasionally, to quickly access any of my locally hosted apps or servers.
- Exposer son pod à distance dans Kubernetes ou OpenShift avec Rust …
GitHub - jpillora/chisel: A fast TCP/UDP tunnel over HTTP
- Hippotat: IP over HTTP
- Ask HN: Books/resources/materials that teach you VPN fundamental?
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jpillora/chisel is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of chisel is Go.
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