wiresocks

wiresocks

Wiresocks client that exposes itself as a socks5 proxy

What is this

wiresocks is a completely userspace application that connects to a wireguard peer, and exposes a socks5 proxy on the machine. This can be useful if you need to connect to certain sites via a wireguard peer, but do not want to setup a new network interface for whatever reasons.

Why you might want this

• You simply want wireguard as a way to proxy some traffic
• You don't want root permission just to change wireguard settings

Currently I am running wiresocks connected to a wireguard server in another country, and configured my browser to use wiresocks for certain sites. It is pretty useful since wiresocks is completely isolated from my network interfaces, also I don't need root to configure anything.

Usage

./wiresocks [-v] [-l addr:port] <config file path>

Sample config file

Wiresocks supports subset of the wg-quick file format.

[Interface]
PrivateKey = uCTIK+56CPyCvwJxmU5dBfuyJvPuSXAq1FzHdnIxe1Q=
Address = 172.16.31.2
DNS = 1.1.1.1
# MTU = 1420

# Only first defined peer will be used
[Peer]
PublicKey = QP+A67Z2UBrMgvNIdHv8gPel5URWNLS4B3ZQ2hQIZlg=
Endpoint = 172.16.0.1:53
# PersistentKeepalive = 25
# PreSharedKey = UItQuvLsyh50ucXHfjF0bbR4IIpVBd74lwKc8uIPXXs=
# AllowedIPs parameter is ignored and is always 0.0.0.0/0, ::0/0