What is Shadowsocks?

Shadowsocks is a secure split proxy loosely based on SOCKS5. The Shadowsocks local component (ss-local) acts like a traditional SOCKS5 server and provides proxy service to clients. It encrypts and forwards datastreams and packets from the client to the Shadowsocks remote component(ss-remote), which decrypts and forwards to the target. Replies from targetare similarly encrypted and relayed byss-remoteback toss-local, whichdecrypts and eventually returns to the original client.