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I just found Socks concept and I'm trying to understand more about it and can understand the difference with other proxy and all kinds of vpn

  • Does Socks v5 encrypt the all traffic?
  • Can you look at this client and explain its difference with other implementations?
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Does Socks v5 encrypt the all traffic?

No.

However, some software present a SOCKS proxy locally (i.e. on localhost) and translate it to a custom protocol across the network, which may be encrypted. For example, that's how Tor works, as well as ssh -D dynamic tunnels.

Can you look at this client and explain its difference with other implementations?

Shadowsocks is not a SOCKS 5 client. It uses a custom protocol over the network, and only presents a SOCKS-compatible interface locally – exactly like my earlier Tor and SSH examples.

                Your computer                             Internet
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ client --[SOCKS 5]--> ss-client ==[Shadowsocks]==> ss-server --[TCP]--> destination
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

--- plaintext
=== encrypted
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