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A SOCKS5 Proxy server written in Rust

🎁 Features

• Multi-threaded connection handler
• Lightweight (only uses CPU time for starting connections)
• Standalone binary (no system dependencies)
• 1+ Gb/second connection speeds (upload/download)
• Tunable logging (try export RUST_LOG=merino=DEBUG)
• SOCKS5 Compatible Authentication methods:
  • NoAuth
  • Username & Password
  • GSSAPI Coming Soon!

📦 Installation & 🏃 Usage

Installation

bash cargo install merino

OR

bash git clone https://github.com/ajmwagar/merino cd merino cargo install --path .

Usage

```bash

Start a SOCKS5 Proxy server listening on port 1080 without authentication

merino --no-auth

Use username/password authentication and read users from users.csv

merino --users users.csv

Display a help menu

merino --help ```

🚥 Roadmap

• [x] IPV6 Support
• [ ] SOCKS5 Authentication Methods
  • [x] NOAUTH
  • [x] USERPASS
• [ ] SOCKS5 Commands
  • [x] CONNECT
  • [ ] BIND
  • [ ] ASSOCIATE
• [ ] [Actix](https://github.com/actix-rs/actix) based backend
• [ ] SOCKS4 Support