GOST
Versatile secure tunneling and proxy toolkit
GOST is an open-source command-line tool that provides flexible secure tunneling and proxying with support for many protocols. It is self-hosted to build relay chains and forward traffic.
Key features
- Multi-protocol tunneling
- Relay chaining
- Port forwarding
- Single binary
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 7.5k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
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