wraith/README.md

Wraith

This project has been renamed to Alknet.

All future development continues under the Alknet name at:

• Primary: https://git.alk.dev/alkdev/alknet
• Mirror: https://github.com/alkimiadev/alknet

This repository is archived. No further changes will be made here. Please update your dependencies and references to the new repository. The code, crate names, CLI binary name, and all identifiers will be updated from wraith to alknet (e.g. wraith-core → alknet-core, wraith serve → alknet serve).

The license (MIT OR Apache-2.0) remains the same.

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A self-hostable SSH-based tunnel tool that provides VPN-like functionality without being a VPN protocol.

What it does

• Private tunneling — Route traffic to internal services (Postgres, Redis, APIs) over SSH
• Censorship circumvention — SSH over TLS on port 443 is indistinguishable from HTTPS to DPI
• NAT traversal — The iroh transport enables peer-to-peer connections without public IPs or port forwarding
• Service mesh connectivity — Lightweight transport layer for event systems via reserved destinations

The core insight: SSH tunnels work because SSH is fundamental infrastructure. Blocking it breaks the internet.

Quick start

See the Alknet repository for current build and usage instructions.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.