#qTunnel

qTunnel - a simpler and (possibily) faster tunnel program

qtunnel is a network tunneling software working as an encryption wrapper between clients and servers (remote/local). It can work as a Stunnel/stud replacement.

qtunnel has been serving over 10 millions connections on Qu Jing each day for the past few months.

Why Another Wrapper

Stunnel/stud is great in SSL/TLS based environments, but what we want is a lighter and faster solution that only does one job: transfer encrypted data between servers and clients. We don't need to deal with certification settings and we want the transfer is as fast as possible. So we made qTunnel. Basically, it's a Stunnel/stud without certification settings and SSL handshakes, and it's written in Go.

Requirements

qtunnel is writen in golang 1.3.1, after building it can run on almost every OS.

Build

To build qtunnel

$ make

To test qtunnel

$ make test

Usage

$ ./bin/qtunnel -h
Usage of ./bin/qtunnel:
	-backend="127.0.0.1:6400": host:port of the backend
	-clientmode=false: if running at client mode
	-crypto="rc4": encryption method
	-listen=":9001": host:port qtunnel listen on
	-logto="stdout": stdout or syslog
	-secret="secret": password used to encrypt the data

qtunnel supports two encryption methods: rc4 and aes256cfb. Both servers and clients should use the same crypto and same secret.

Credits

Special thanks to Paul for reviewing the code.

Contributing

We encourage you to contribute to qtunnel! Please feel free to submit a bug report, fork the repo or create a pull request.

License

qtunnel is released under the Apache License 2.0.