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Max Lv f1f31c3c05 C++20 port 15/15: remove the stream ciphers (#3079)
* Remove the stream ciphers

The unauthenticated stream ciphers (aes-*-cfb, aes-*-ctr, camellia-*-cfb,
chacha20, chacha20-ietf, salsa20) are gone from every build, together
with the SS_ENABLE_LEGACY option, the C++ stream codecs, their C test
oracle and the stream-only tests and configurations. A configuration
naming one of them, or RC4/table, now fails at startup with a message
pointing to an AEAD method, and test_cli checks that.

Shell completions list only the supported methods (and now include the
2022 ones), and the docs and the compatibility contract say the stream
ciphers were removed.

* Drop the Mbed TLS CFB requirement and stale stream-cipher examples

CFB was only needed by the removed stream ciphers, so a system Mbed TLS
built without it no longer fails to configure. The public header example
now uses aes-256-gcm.
2026-10-15 10:15:53 +08:00

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\page ss-manager ss-manager

\brief ss-server controller for multi-user management and traffic statistics

\section ss_manager_synopsis SYNOPSIS

ss-manager [options]

\section ss_manager_description DESCRIPTION

shadowsocks-c is a lightweight and secure socks5 proxy. It is a port of the original shadowsocks created by clowwindy. shadowsocks-c is written in pure C and takes advantage of libuv to achieve both high performance and low resource consumption.

shadowsocks-c consists of five components. ss-manager(1) is a controller for multi-user management and traffic statistics, using UNIX domain socket to talk with ss-server(1). Also, it provides a UNIX domain socket or IP based API for other software. About the details of this API, please refer to the following PROTOCOL section.

\section ss_manager_options OPTIONS

Options include all supported platform variants; restrictions are noted below.

\snippet{doc} manager.cpp cli-options

\section ss_manager_protocol PROTOCOL

ss-manager(1) provides several APIs through UDP protocol:

Send UDP commands in the following format to the manager-address provided to ss-manager(1):

command: [JSON data]

To add a port:

add: {"server_port": 8001, "password":"7cd308cc059"}

To remove a port:

remove: {"server_port": 8001}

To receive the traffic statistics:

ping

The format of the traffic statistics:

stat: {"8001":11370}

There is no way to reset the traffic statistics, unless you remove the port and add it again

\section ss_manager_example EXAMPLE

To use ss-manager(1), First start it and specify necessary information.

Then communicate with ss-manager(1) through UNIX Domain Socket using UDP protocol:

# Start the manager. Arguments for ss-server will be passed to generated
# ss-server process(es) respectively.
ss-manager --manager-address /tmp/manager.sock --executable $(which ss-server) -s example.com -m aes-256-gcm -c /path/to/config.json

# Connect to the socket. Using netcat-openbsd as an example.
# You should use scripts or other programs for further management.
nc -Uu /tmp/manager.sock

After that, you may communicate with ss-manager(1) as described above in the PROTOCOL section.

\section ss_manager_see_also SEE ALSO

ss-local(1), ss-server(1), ss-tunnel(1), ss-redir(1), shadowsocks-libev(8), iptables(8), /etc/shadowsocks-libev/config.json