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brew install geph4

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overview

Package summary

Modular Internet censorship circumvention system to deal with national filtering

Project links

Commands and aliases

geph4-client

history

Project history and usage

Geph4 Client is the command-line client for Geph, a modular censorship-circumvention system designed for national filtering environments. The package exposes Geph's proxy, VPN, synchronization, binder, and diagnostic operations as a Rust command-line program.

Project history

The geph4-client repository was opened in 2020 as the command-line client for the fourth-generation Geph system. Its README describes a design built around exit servers, bridge servers, the sosistab2 transport, and client-side tunneling for proxy and VPN traffic.

Adoption history

Geph4 Client sits in a small but specialized ecosystem of Geph components, including the GUI client, bridge infrastructure, the sosistab2 transport, and binder services. Its significance comes from packaging censorship-circumvention behavior in a scriptable CLI rather than only in a graphical application.

How it is used

Practitioners run `geph4-client connect` with user credentials and an exit server to create local SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, and may enable VPN mode on supported platforms. Other subcommands synchronize account and exit-server data, proxy binder API calls for the GUI, or export a debug SQLite database.

Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, geph4-client is useful because it installs the Rust CLI entry point without a manual Cargo build. That makes it easier to script Geph connections, wire local applications through localhost proxy ports, or test Geph behavior outside the GUI.

Timeline

2020: The geph4-client repository was opened on GitHub.
2020s: The README documents bridge-backed exit-server connections, SOCKS5 and HTTP local proxies, VPN modes, and GUI support commands.

Related projects

gephgui, bridge-phalanx, sosistab2, Mel

Sources

security posture

Risk level: blue

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

Risk classifier

blue risk · medium confidence · tool

Why

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

Signals

text:client

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

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Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`geph4-client`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version4.99.32

manager updated2026-07-06

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:geph4
Version	4.99.32
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://geph.io/
Repository	https://github.com/geph-official/geph4-client
Last updated	2026-07-06T20:43:39-04:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

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Combined YAML source

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combined/geph4.yml

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