This project is based on [GoQuiet](https://github.com/cbeuw/GoQuiet). The most significant difference is that, in GoQuiet, a new TCP connection is establieshed and a TLS handshake is done between the client and the proxy server each time a connection is made to ssclient, whereas in Cloak all the traffic is multiplexed through a fixed amount of consistant TCP connections between the client and the proxy server. The major benefits are:
- Significantly quicker establishment of new connections as TLS handshake is only done on the startup of the client
- More realistic traffic pattern
Besides, Cloak allows multiple users to use one server **on a single port**. QoS restrictions such as bandwidth limitation and data cap can also be managed.
5. Edit the configuration file of shadowsocks-libev (default location is /etc/shadowsocks-libev/config.json). Let `server_port` be `443`, `plugin` be the full path to the ck-server binary and `plugin_opts` be the full path to ckserver.json. If the fields `plugin` and `plugin_opts` were not present originally, add these fields to the config file.
6. Run ss-server as root (because we are binding to TCP port 443)
2. On your client, run `ck-client -a -c <path-to-ckclient.json>` to enter admin mode
3. Input as prompted, that is your ip:port of the server and your AdminUID. Enter 4 to create a new user.
4. Enter the UID in your ckclient.json as the prompted UID, enter SessionsCap (maximum amount of concurrent sessions a user can have), UpRate and DownRate (in bytes/s), UpCredit and DownCredit (in bytes) and ExpiryTime (as a unix epoch)
5. Give your PUBLIC key and the newly generated UID to the new user
Note: the user database is persistent as it's in-disk. You don't need to add the users again each time you start ck-server.
4. Configure your shadowsocks client with your server information. The field `plugin` should be the path to ck-server binary and `plugin_opts` should be the path to ckclient.json
