Mtproto.zig
High-performance Telegram proxy with DPI evasion
Details
- External ID
- 47632692
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Mtproto.zig
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 24
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.775706940874036
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone. I built an MTProto proxy for Telegram aimed at bypassing active DPI censorship like the Russian TSPU. I chose Zig because it's perfect for writing fast network daemons and makes it incredibly easy to port low-level C bypass techniques like TCP desync and packet fragmentation. Would love to get some feedback or contributors!
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- high-performance telegram proxy with dpi evasion
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Implementing a high-performance proxy with custom TCP desync, packet fragmentation, and MTProto encryption to bypass state-level DPI (like Russia's TSPU) requires deep networking, low-level socket manipulation, and active adversarial evasion research.
What it would actually take: Building this requires Zig or C/Rust with direct access to raw sockets or Linux nfqueue/eBPF, precise control over TCP segment sizes, out-of-order window tricks, and deep understanding of MTProto obfuscated protocol handshakes. It also necessitates continuous reverse engineering of active DPI middleboxes to identify evasion flaws.
Discussion
15 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: SoftEtherVPN, Yggdrasil Network, Tor, BitTorrent, Tailscale
Concerns raised: AI-generated code lacks author understanding of what software does, Doesn't blend well with normal HTTPS traffic as fingerprint, Won't work during complete internet blackouts with default-deny intranets, High volume of low-quality AI submissions cluttering community, Difficult to integrate with existing VPN/Tailscale setups
Feature requests: Decentralized ad hoc network with onion bouncing through nodes, Automatic node discovery for tunneling, DPI evasion without relying on specific applications, Per-application tunnel isolation instead of system-wide, Tag or flag AI-generated submissions
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 60 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 61 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 127 days after the earliest competitor.
- mtproto-inataller · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- tgwsproxy-socks5.github.io · github · 2026-09-25 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- SMTP Tunnel · hn · 2026-01-07 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- teledrive · github · 2026-09-10 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- proxy-telegram.github.io · github · 2026-09-25 · 47 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting · hn · 2025-12-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Webhook Proxy · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- SmokeVPN · hn · 2026-08-01 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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