Are you tired of struggling with VPN configurations to secure your web browsing and looking for a simple and effective solution to protect your online privacy without the hassle?
Have you considered WireProxy?
This small open-source software is a client that acts as a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy and allows you to connect to a WireGuard server and expose a proxy on your machine. It can be super handy if you need to access certain sites via VPN but don’t want to bother with setting up a new network interface. Once it’s set up on your device, all you need to do is configure your browser to go through the proxy. And there’s no need for root privileges to configure it.
On top of that, it comes with a bunch of cool features:
- Static TCP routing for client and server
- SOCKS5/HTTP proxy (currently only CONNECT is supported)
- UDP support in SOCKS5
- Static UDP routing
So, to install it:
- Clone the GitHub repository:
git clone https://github.com/pufferffish/wireproxy - Go to the directory:
cd wireproxy - Compile the project:
make - Then launch WireProxy with your config file (details are on GitHub):
./wireproxy -c path/to/config.conf
The configuration file uses a syntax similar to WireGuard, so if you’re already familiar with WireGuard, it won’t feel foreign.
You can define the interface and the server(s) (the peers), but also configure TCP and UDP tunnels as well as the SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy. The tool even supports authentication for the proxy—just specify a username and password in the [Socks5] or [http] section.
And that’s it, you’re ready to surf securely!
Another strong point of WireProxy is that it supports connection to multiple peers! You just need to specify the AllowedIPs for each peer so it knows which peers to route traffic to. And if you want the peers to be able to connect to your WireProxy instance, that’s also possible by specifying the listening port with ListenPort.
Have fun!
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