# zolagonano/RawLink

> RawLink is an encrypted TCP tunnel written in Rust with a local SOCKS5 proxy, AES-256-GCM, and optional traffic obfuscation including SSH mimicry. It lets you hide and encrypt connections, though it has not yet undergone a thorough security audit.

- Magnitude: 1.3 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 10 total · +3 stars measured 2026-10-20, 20:24–23:27 UTC
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Rust · Created: 2026-10-19 · Last push: 2026-10-19
- GitHub: https://github.com/zolagonano/RawLink · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/zolagonano/RawLink

## Useful for

- Run a local SOCKS5 proxy and route curl or a browser through it
- Camouflage the tunnel as an SSH session using the --obfs ssh flag
- Set up multiple tunnels sharing a pre-shared key for different services

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-20 (UTC), 20:24–23:27: 7 → 10 stars (+3). This is the change over that interval.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 10 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch” — 12 points, 1 day ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 2 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0

## Stars per day, last 3 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-19 … 2026-10-21: 2, 8, None

## Hacker News

- Show HN: RawLink – Building a VPN protocol from scratch — 12 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50156469

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/p1neappleXpress/OpenFlux.md

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