soxy-chains

soxy-chains is a scalable multi-layer TCP traffic tunneling application, providing thus military-grade traffic encryption capabilities. It supports an arbitrary number of layers that spans an arbitrary number of hosts.

1. Usage Scenario Examples

1.1 Web crawling

1.1.1 Scenario Requirements

1. A pool of 30 IP addresses for web crawling at max.
2. Avoid using Tor on the external layer as the addresses are more likely to be black-listed.
3. Only public VPN can be used, some of which may keep logs.

1.1.2 Solution Topology

An satisfying solution consists of two layers of tunneling : VPN over Tor.

• We'll use a layer of tor nodes as entry points to keep us anonymous vis-à-vis the public VPN providers.
• We'll use an external layer of VPN nodes as a target-facing clients.

1.1.3 Configuration

namespace: web_crawling_example
hosts:
  - address: localhost
    port: 2375
layers:
  - type: tor
    maxNodes: 5
    healthCheckInterval : 60s
    healthCheckTimeout  : 30s
    provider:
      type : local
      path : /some-path-to/onionoo-response.json
      minBandwidth : 8
      entryNodesCountries:
        - fr,de,gb,hu,it,pl,sl,se,dk,no,cz,bg,hr,ro,sc,nl,sk
      exitNodesCountries:
        - fr,de,gb,hu,it,pl,sl,se,dk,no,cz,bg,hr,ro,sc,nl,sk
  - type: vpn
    #Requirement 1
    maxNodes : 30
    healthCheckInterval : 60s
    healthCheckTimeout  : 30s
    provider :
      type: vpngate
      endpoint: http://130.158.75.33/api/iphone
      countries:
        - any
      excludeCountries:
        - none

2. Scalability/Clustering

soxy-chains is docker-powered and can scale to an arbitrary number of hosts. You can use it on your local computer, over multiple virtual machines or via a cloud provider for larger setups.