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Modular Internet censorship circumvention system to deal with national filtering. Version 4.99.32 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-06.

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Additional install commands

macOS

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brew install geph4

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overview

Package summary

Modular Internet censorship circumvention system to deal with national filtering

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

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 post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 2 build dependencies.

Recommended review

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

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
geph4-clientcliglobal executable

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 generated2026-07-08
manager version4.99.32
manager updated2026-07-06
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv4.99.32

https://github.com/geph-official/geph4-client

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:geph4
Version4.99.32
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/geph4
Homepagehttps://geph.io/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/geph-official/geph4-client
Upstream docshttps://github.com/geph-official/geph4-client
LicenseGPL-3.0-only
Source archivehttps://github.com/geph-official/geph4-client/archive/refs/tags/v4.99.32.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-06T20:43:39-04:00
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciespkgconf, rust
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namegeph4
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • pkgconfBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • rustBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.

Same workflow

  • obfs4proxyShares av.db curated category or tags: censorship-circumvention, cli, networking, privacy, proxy.
  • sing-boxShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, proxy, vpn.
  • xrayShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, privacy, proxy.
  • brookShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, proxy.
  • connectShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, proxy.
  • danteShares av.db curated category or tags: cli, networking, proxy.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated package history
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment