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chiSSL is essentially a light version of Chisel exclusively focusing on creating on-demand HTTPS reverse tunnels.
- Fully managed SSL certificates via Let's Encrypt
- Payload inspection for connections
- Multiple concurrent HTTPS reverse tunnels
- Client configuration using yaml file
- User management CLI (beta)
- User management REST API (beta)
- Linux server with a public IP address
- Fully qualified domain name!
brew tap nextchaptersoftware/chissl https://github.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl
brew install chissl# <domain_name> must be set to your server's fqdn
# [port] is optional and will default to 443
# bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl/main/server_installer.sh) <domain_name> [port]
# e.g
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl/main/server_installer.sh) your.domain.comBinaries for all supported platforms can be downloaded from Releases page.
# sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/chissl https://github.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl/releases/download/v{VERSION}/chissl_{VERSION}_{OS}_{ARCH}
# e.g
sudo curl -L -o /usr/local/bin/chissl https://github.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl/releases/download/v1.2/chissl_1.2_linux_amd64
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/chissl# Fully automated Let's Encrypt certificate
chissl server --tls-domain tunnel.example.com --auth Username:Password
# Bring your own certificate
chissl server --tls-key /path/to/your/privkey.pem \
--tls-cert /path/to/your/fullchain.pem \
--auth Username:Password # For a single port
chissl client --auth Username:Password https://tunnel.example.com "PortOnServer->PortOnYourMachine"
# It can work with multiple port mappings too!
chissl client --auth Username:Password https://tunnel.example.com \
"Port1_OnServer->PortX_OnYourMachine" "Port2_OnServer->PortY_OnYourMachine" "Port3_OnServer->PortZ_OnYourMachine"Using the --authfile option, the server may optionally provide a user.json configuration file to create a list of accepted users. The client then authenticates using the --auth option. See users.json for an example authentication configuration file. See the --help above for more information.
Internally, this is done using the Password authentication method provided by SSH. Learn more about crypto/ssh here http://blog.gopheracademy.com/go-and-ssh/.
Setting client logging to debug (`-v`) will output data sent/received along with stats for each connection.Example output:
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1: Open [1/1]
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1:
================== Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 : Read ==================
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: tunnel.example.com:8098
User-Agent: curl/8.4.0
Accept: */*
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1:
================== Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 : Write ==================
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: SimpleHTTP/0.6 Python/3.11.3
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 06:46:54 GMT
Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 187
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1:
================== Host: 127.0.0.1:8000 : Write ==================
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Directory listing for /</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Directory listing for /</h1>
<hr>
<ul>
</ul>
<hr>
</body>
</html>
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1: sent 98B received 342B
2024/05/20 23:46:54 client: tun: conn#1: Close [0/1]
$ chissl --help
Usage: chissl [command] [--help]
Version: X.Y.Z
Commands:
server - runs chissl in server mode
client - runs chissl in client mode
Read more:
https://github.com/NextChapterSoftware/chissl
Usage: chissl server [options]
Options:
--host, Defines the HTTP listening host – the network interface
(defaults the environment variable HOST and falls back to 0.0.0.0).
--port, -p, Defines the HTTP listening port (defaults to the environment
variable PORT and fallsback to port 8080).
--key, (deprecated use --keygen and --keyfile instead)
An optional string to seed the generation of a ECDSA public
and private key pair. All communications will be secured using this
key pair. Share the subsequent fingerprint with clients to enable detection
of man-in-the-middle attacks (defaults to the CHISEL_KEY environment
variable, otherwise a new key is generate each run).
--keygen, A path to write a newly generated PEM-encoded SSH private key file.
If users depend on your --key fingerprint, you may also include your --key to
output your existing key. Use - (dash) to output the generated key to stdout.
--keyfile, An optional path to a PEM-encoded SSH private key. When
this flag is set, the --key option is ignored, and the provided private key
is used to secure all communications. (defaults to the CHISEL_KEY_FILE
environment variable). Since ECDSA keys are short, you may also set keyfile
to an inline base64 private key (e.g. chissl server --keygen - | base64).
--authfile, An optional path to a users.json file. This file should
be an object with users defined like:
{
"<user:pass>": ["<addr-regex>","<addr-regex>"]
}
when <user> connects, their <pass> will be verified and then
each of the remote addresses will be compared against the list
of address regular expressions for a match. Addresses will always
come in the form:
"local-port:local-host->remote-port:remote-host"
This file will be automatically reloaded on change.
--auth, An optional string representing a single user with full
access, in the form of <user:pass>. It is equivalent to creating an
authfile with {"<user:pass>": [""]}. If unset, it will use the
environment variable AUTH.
--keepalive, An optional keepalive interval. Since the underlying
transport is HTTP, in many instances we'll be traversing through
proxies, often these proxies will close idle connections. You must
specify a time with a unit, for example '5s' or '2m'. Defaults
to '25s' (set to 0s to disable).
--tls-key, Enables TLS and provides optional path to a PEM-encoded
TLS private key. When this flag is set, you must also set --tls-cert,
and you cannot set --tls-domain.
--tls-cert, Enables TLS and provides optional path to a PEM-encoded
TLS certificate. When this flag is set, you must also set --tls-key,
and you cannot set --tls-domain.
--tls-domain, Enables TLS and automatically acquires a TLS key and
certificate using LetsEncrypt. Setting --tls-domain requires port 443.
You may specify multiple --tls-domain flags to serve multiple domains.
The resulting files are cached in the "$HOME/.cache/chisel" directory.
You can modify this path by setting the CHISEL_LE_CACHE variable,
or disable caching by setting this variable to "-". You can optionally
provide a certificate notification email by setting CHISEL_LE_EMAIL.
--tls-ca, a path to a PEM encoded CA certificate bundle or a directory
holding multiple PEM encode CA certificate bundle files, which is used to
validate client connections. The provided CA certificates will be used
instead of the system roots. This is commonly used to implement mutual-TLS.
Clients can also be configured using a yaml file placed at .chissl/profile.yaml under current user's home directory or at a path supplied using --profile option.
See profile-example.yaml and profile-example-full.yaml.
Usage: chissl client [options] <server> <remote> [remote] [remote] ...
<server> is the URL to the chissl server.
<remote>s are remote connections tunneled through the server, each of
which come in the form:
local-port:local-host->remote-port:remote-host
■ local-port (port on server) is required*.
■ local-host (interface on server) defaults to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces).
■ remote-port is required*.
■ remote-host defaults to 127.0.0.1
example remotes
8080->80
8080:0.0.0.0->80
8080:0.0.0.0->80:127.0.0.1
8089->80:neverssl.com
Options:
--profile, path to profile configuration yaml file. Defaults to
$HOME/chissl/profile.yaml. Profile yaml file allows users to
set all client arguments and configurations using a static file.
YAML Options:
---
fingerprint: "sample_fingerprint"
auth: "user:password"
keepalive: 30s
max-retry-count: 10
max-retry-interval: 2m
server: "example.com"
proxy: "http://admin:password@my-server.com:8081"
remotes:
- 8089->80:neverssl.com
- 8080->80
headers:
Foo: ["Bar"]
tls:
tls-skip-verify: true
tls-ca: "/path/to/ca"
tls-cert: "/path/to/cert"
tls-key: "/path/to/key"
hostname: "example.com"
verbose: true
--fingerprint, A *strongly recommended* fingerprint string
to perform host-key validation against the server's public key.
Fingerprint mismatches will close the connection.
Fingerprints are generated by hashing the ECDSA public key using
SHA256 and encoding the result in base64.
Fingerprints must be 44 characters containing a trailing equals (=).
--auth, An optional username and password (client authentication)
in the form: "<user>:<pass>". These credentials are compared to
the credentials inside the server's --authfile. defaults to the
AUTH environment variable.
--keepalive, An optional keepalive interval. Since the underlying
transport is HTTP, in many instances we'll be traversing through
proxies, often these proxies will close idle connections. You must
specify a time with a unit, for example '5s' or '2m'. Defaults
to '25s' (set to 0s to disable).
--max-retry-count, Maximum number of times to retry before exiting.
Defaults to unlimited.
--max-retry-interval, Maximum wait time before retrying after a
disconnection. Defaults to 5 minutes.
--proxy, An optional HTTP CONNECT or SOCKS5 proxy which will be
used to reach the chissl server. Authentication can be specified
inside the URL.
For example, http://admin:password@my-server.com:8081
or: socks://admin:password@my-server.com:1080
--hostname, Optionally set the 'Host' header (defaults to the host
found in the server url).
--sni, Override the ServerName when using TLS (defaults to the
hostname).
--tls-ca, An optional root certificate bundle used to verify the
chissl server. Only valid when connecting to the server with
"https" or "wss". By default, the operating system CAs will be used.
--tls-skip-verify, Skip server TLS certificate verification of
chain and host name (if TLS is used for transport connections to
server). If set, client accepts any TLS certificate presented by
the server and any host name in that certificate. This only affects
transport https (wss) connection. Chisel server's public key
may be still verified (see --fingerprint) after inner connection
is established.
--tls-key, a path to a PEM encoded private key used for client
authentication (mutual-TLS).
--tls-cert, a path to a PEM encoded certificate matching the provided
private key. The certificate must have client authentication
enabled (mutual-TLS)
Admin CLI docs can be found here
User management REST API docs can be found here
- Used hashed/obfuscated passwords in server config file
- Modernise CLI implementation
- Improve verbose logging method
- Fix the ability to set/forward default headers