SHADOWSOCKS
About SHADOWSOCKS
Shadowsocks is an encrypted proxy created to evade censorship firewalls; its traffic is designed to be indistinguishable from a random byte stream. Modern deployments use AEAD ciphers such as aes-256-gcm or chacha20-ietf-poly1305, and credentials are a method and password pair rather than a certificate. SIP002-style share links encode the credentials in the userinfo part of the URI, optionally with a plugin such as v2ray-plugin or simple-obfs. It remains one of the most widely supported protocols across public config lists.
Top countries
Counts reflect the country codes observed on SHADOWSOCKS records. Follow a row to the protocol-country combination.
Frequently asked questions
What is Shadowsocks?
Shadowsocks is an encrypted proxy protocol. A record specifies an encryption method, a password, a server and a port, usually shared as ss:// links.
Why do some methods appear more often?
Publishing tools default to a small set of ciphers such as aes-256-gcm and chacha20-ietf-poly1305, so those dominate public lists.
Can I filter Shadowsocks records by country?
Yes — pick a country on the countries page or open a protocol-country combination page to see records observed with that country code.
Freshness shows when a config was last seen in a public source — not whether it works.