SOCKS 5 is a standard Internet proxy protocol.

SOCKS 5是一个标准的网络代理协议。

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The tool currently only obscures SSL and TLS as the SOCKS protocol used by proxy servers, but in the future, he hopes it will be able to impersonate any sort of traffic, including HTTP or instant messages.

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