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Getting started

Prerequisites

  • Rust 1.85+ (the project uses Edition 2024)
  • A POSIX shell or PowerShell for running commands
  • curl (for E2E testing)

Build

cd rustunnel
cargo build --release

The release binary is produced at target/release/rustunnel.

Run tests

cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo check
cargo test --all-targets

The test suite includes unit tests for framing, SOCKS5 parsing, TLS config building, credential generation, connection key roundtrips, and full end-to-end tunnel flows.

Generate credentials

./target/release/rustunnel generate --out ./creds

This creates:

  • creds/ca.pem — CA certificate
  • creds/ca.key — CA private key
  • creds/server.crt — server certificate
  • creds/server.key — server private key
  • creds/client.crt — client certificate
  • creds/client.key — client private key
  • creds/token.txt — auth token
  • creds/config.json — configuration file with paths and defaults

Run a tunnel

Start the listener

./target/release/rustunnel listen \
  --listen 127.0.0.1:4180 \
  --cert ./creds/server.crt \
  --key ./creds/server.key \
  --ca-cert ./creds/ca.pem \
  --auth-token-file ./creds/token.txt

Start the connector

./target/release/rustunnel connect \
  --target 127.0.0.1:4180 \
  --socks 127.0.0.1:1180 \
  --cert ./creds/client.crt \
  --key ./creds/client.key \
  --ca-cert ./creds/ca.pem \
  --auth-token-file ./creds/token.txt

Use the SOCKS5 proxy

curl --proxy socks5h://127.0.0.1:1180 http://127.0.0.1:4181/

Using a connection key

Instead of passing individual certificate paths, you can generate a single connection key:

./target/release/rustunnel keygen --target 127.0.0.1:4180

Then start the listener with the key (it auto-generates credentials):

./target/release/rustunnel listen --connection-key <key>

And connect with the same key:

./target/release/rustunnel connect <key>

Defaults

  • Listener bind address: 0.0.0.0:4180
  • Connector target: required (or taken from connection key)
  • Connector SOCKS5 proxy: 127.0.0.1:1180