Shadowsocks-windows: Are there any plans to backport AEAD ciphers from fuckshadows?

Created on 29 Mar 2017 · 6Comments · Source: shadowsocks/shadowsocks-windows

It seems that FuckShadows ( https://github.com/fuckshadows ) has been using similar AEAD ciphers to shadowsocks, and implement them on a .NET windows application (fuckshadows-windows) basing on shadowsocks-windows. Are there any plan to backport those ciphers to shadowsocks-windows?

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zeptoTantalum

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I could not say I am the main contributor of both projects. I just did a little bit of work.

celeron533 on 29 Mar 2017

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The name 'Fuc...' sounds likes a joke :)

lixingcong on 29 Mar 2017

@lixingcong That it sounds like a joke doesn't mean it is a joke. Glancing through its source code, it seems that fuckshadows-windows is based on shadowsocks-windows 3.4.3. It has deprecated OTA, has refactored the core encryption/decryption, has added AEAD ciphers. Seems the main difference between fuckshadows and shadowsocks protocol is the key derivation function, and that fuckshadows is trying to randomize the TCP segment / UDP packet length, which has been strongly proposed by @breakwa11 .

(I am not sure because I don't really read those codes carefully.)

zeptoTantalum on 29 Mar 2017

And the main contributors of shadowsocks-windows, @celeron533 and @wongsyrone , are the main contributors to fuckshadows see ( https://github.com/fuckshadows/fuckshadows-windows/issues/1 ).
Users of shadowsocks-windows are actually in need of those new ciphers ( I myself even use Windows Subsystem for Linux to use shadowsocks-libev ). Fuckshadows-windows might have implemented all this while the development of shadowsocks-windows is almost suspended. So things are really getting weird...

zeptoTantalum on 29 Mar 2017

I could not say I am the main contributor of both projects. I just did a little bit of work.

celeron533 on 29 Mar 2017

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So, the question is still not answered. The purpose of fuckshadows is still a mystery. I'm actually worrying that @wongsyrone is trying to fork shadowsocks project again. I don't really hope this happens, since we already have shadowsocksr.

@celeron533 , if you don't mind, may I try to backport AEAD ciphers from fuckshadows? I'm not familiar with cryptography, but with specification and reference implementation exists, maybe I can do it.

zeptoTantalum on 30 Mar 2017

@zeptoTantalum 你做呗，我支持