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Compared to Shadowsocks and OpenVPN

clowwindy edited this page Nov 26, 2014 · 5 revisions
              |  OpenVPN  |   ShadowSocks  | ShadowVPN

----------------- | --------- | -------------- | ---------- Layer | IP | TCP/UDP | IP Frontend | VPN | socks/iptables | VPN Security | CCA | CPA | CCA Protocol Sniffing | possible | difficult | difficult Tamper Proof | Y | N | Y Disruption Proof | N | N | Y Speed | fast(UDP) | fast | fast CPU utilization | high | medium | low RAM | low | medium | low

ShadowVPN is inspired by SigmaVPN:

  • Stateless VPN
  • Low resource comsumption

ShadowVPN has several improvements over SigmaVPN:

  • Faster encryption
  • Use multiple UDP sockets
  • User friendly configuration with scripting support
  • Builtin daemon and logging support
  • Lower packet overhead
  • Does not crash easily
  • Use GNU Autotools, making it easier to build and port