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Telemt - MTProxy on Rust + Tokio

Löst Probleme, bevor andere überhaupt wissen, dass sie existieren / It solves problems before others even realize they exist

Telemt is a fast, secure, and feature-rich server written in Rust: it fully implements the official Telegram proxy algo and adds many production-ready improvements such as:

Telemt Chat in Telegram

NEWS and EMERGENCY

✈️ Telemt 3 is released!

🇷🇺 RU

Релиз 3.3.5 LTS - 6 марта

6 марта мы выпустили Telemt 3.3.5

Это 3.3.5 - первая LTS-версия telemt!

В ней используется:

  • новый алгоритм ME NoWait для непревзойдённо быстрого восстановления пула
  • Adaptive Floor, поддерживающий количество ME Writer на оптимальном уровне
  • модель усовершенствованного доступа к KDF Fingerprint на RwLock
  • строгая привязка Middle-End к DC-ID с предсказуемым алгоритмом деградации и самовосстановления

Telemt Control API V1 в 3.3.5 включает:

  • несколько режимов работы в зависимости от доступных ресурсов
  • снапшот-модель для живых метрик без вмешательства в hot-path
  • минималистичный набор запросов для управления пользователями

Будем рады вашему фидбеку и предложениям по улучшению — особенно в части API, статистики, UX


Если у вас есть компетенции в:

  • Асинхронных сетевых приложениях
  • Анализе трафика
  • Реверс-инжиниринге
  • Сетевых расследованиях

Мы открыты к архитектурным предложениям, идеям и pull requests

🇬🇧 EN

Release 3.3.5 LTS - March 6

On March 6, we released Telemt 3.3.3

This is 3.3.5 - the first LTS release of telemt

It introduces:

  • the new ME NoWait algorithm for exceptionally fast pool recovery
  • Adaptive Floor, which maintains the number of ME Writers at an optimal level
  • an improved KDF Fingerprint access model based on RwLock
  • strict binding of Middle-End instances to DC-ID with a predictable degradation and self-recovery algorithm

Telemt Control API V1 in version 3.3.5 includes:

  • multiple operating modes depending on available resources
  • a snapshot-based model for live metrics without interfering with the hot path
  • a minimalistic request set for user management

We are looking forward to your feedback and improvement proposals — especially regarding API, statistics, UX


If you have expertise in:

  • Asynchronous network applications
  • Traffic analysis
  • Reverse engineering
  • Network forensics

We welcome ideas, architectural feedback, and pull requests.

Features

💥 The configuration structure has changed since version 1.1.0.0. change it in your environment!

⚓ Our implementation of TLS-fronting is one of the most deeply debugged, focused, advanced and almost "behaviorally consistent to real": we are confident we have it right - see evidence on our validation and traces

⚓ Our Middle-End Pool is fastest by design in standard scenarios, compared to other implementations of connecting to the Middle-End Proxy: non dramatically, but usual

  • Full support for all official MTProto proxy modes:
    • Classic
    • Secure - with dd prefix
    • Fake TLS - with ee prefix + SNI fronting
  • Replay attack protection
  • Optional traffic masking: forward unrecognized connections to a real web server, e.g. GitHub 🤪
  • Configurable keepalives + timeouts + IPv6 and "Fast Mode"
  • Graceful shutdown on Ctrl+C
  • Extensive logging via trace and debug with RUST_LOG method

GOTO

Quick Start Guide

FAQ

Recognizability for DPI and crawler

Since version 1.1.0.0, we have debugged masking perfectly: for all clients without "presenting" a key, we transparently direct traffic to the target host!

  • We consider this a breakthrough aspect, which has no stable analogues today

  • Based on this: if telemt configured correctly, TLS mode is completely identical to real-life handshake + communication with a specified host

  • Here is our evidence:

    • 212.220.88.77 - "dummy" host, running telemt
    • petrovich.ru - tls + masking host, in HEX: 706574726f766963682e7275
    • No MITM + No Fake Certificates/Crypto = pure transparent TCP Splice to "best" upstream: MTProxy or tls/mask-host:
      • DPI see legitimate HTTPS to tls_host, including valid chain-of-trust and entropy
      • Crawlers completely satisfied receiving responses from mask_host

    Client WITH secret-key accesses the MTProxy resource:

    telemt

    Client WITHOUT secret-key gets transparent access to the specified resource:

    • with trusted certificate
    • with original handshake
    • with full request-response way
    • with low-latency overhead
root@debian:~/telemt# curl -v -I --resolve petrovich.ru:443:212.220.88.77 https://petrovich.ru/
* Added petrovich.ru:443:212.220.88.77 to DNS cache
* Hostname petrovich.ru was found in DNS cache
*   Trying 212.220.88.77:443...
* Connected to petrovich.ru (212.220.88.77) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN: offers h2,http/1.1
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):
*  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*  CApath: /etc/ssl/certs
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Server hello (2):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Encrypted Extensions (8):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Certificate (11):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, CERT verify (15):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS change cipher, Change cipher spec (1):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS handshake, Finished (20):
* SSL connection using TLSv1.3 / TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
* ALPN: server did not agree on a protocol. Uses default.
* Server certificate:
*  subject: C=RU; ST=Saint Petersburg; L=Saint Petersburg; O=STD Petrovich; CN=*.petrovich.ru
*  start date: Jan 28 11:21:01 2025 GMT
*  expire date: Mar  1 11:21:00 2026 GMT
*  subjectAltName: host "petrovich.ru" matched cert's "petrovich.ru"
*  issuer: C=BE; O=GlobalSign nv-sa; CN=GlobalSign RSA OV SSL CA 2018
*  SSL certificate verify ok.
* using HTTP/1.x
> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
> Host: petrovich.ru
> User-Agent: curl/7.88.1
> Accept: */*
> 
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* TLSv1.3 (IN), TLS handshake, Newsession Ticket (4):
* old SSL session ID is stale, removing
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: Variti/0.9.3a
Server: Variti/0.9.3a
< Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:0000 GMT
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:0000 GMT
< Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
< Content-Type: text/html
Content-Type: text/html
< Cache-Control: no-store
Cache-Control: no-store
< Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:0000 GMT
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:0000 GMT
< Pragma: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
< Set-Cookie: ipp_uid=XXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX==; Expires=Tue, 31 Dec 2040 23:59:59 GMT; Domain=.petrovich.ru; Path=/
Set-Cookie: ipp_uid=XXXXX/XXXXX/XXXXX==; Expires=Tue, 31 Dec 2040 23:59:59 GMT; Domain=.petrovich.ru; Path=/
< Content-Type: text/html
Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Length: 31253
Content-Length: 31253
< Connection: keep-alive
Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=60
Keep-Alive: timeout=60

< 
* Connection #0 to host petrovich.ru left intact
  • We challenged ourselves, we kept trying and we didn't only beat the air: now, we have something to show you
    • Do not just take our word for it? - This is great and we respect that: you can build your own telemt or download a build and check it right now

Telegram Calls via MTProxy

  • Telegram architecture does NOT allow calls via MTProxy, but only via SOCKS5, which cannot be obfuscated

How does DPI see MTProxy TLS?

  • DPI sees MTProxy in Fake TLS (ee) mode as TLS 1.3
  • the SNI you specify sends both the client and the server;
  • ALPN is similar to HTTP 1.1/2;
  • high entropy, which is normal for AES-encrypted traffic;

Whitelist on IP

  • MTProxy cannot work when there is:
    • no IP connectivity to the target host: Russian Whitelist on Mobile Networks - "Белый список"
    • OR all TCP traffic is blocked
    • OR high entropy/encrypted traffic is blocked: content filters at universities and critical infrastructure
    • OR all TLS traffic is blocked
    • OR specified port is blocked: use 443 to make it "like real"
    • OR provided SNI is blocked: use "officially approved"/innocuous name
  • like most protocols on the Internet;
  • these situations are observed:
    • in China behind the Great Firewall
    • in Russia on mobile networks, less in wired networks
    • in Iran during "activity"

Too many open files

  • On a fresh Linux install the default open file limit is low; under load telemt may fail with Accept error: Too many open files
  • Systemd: add LimitNOFILE=65536 to the [Service] section (already included in the example above)
  • Docker: add --ulimit nofile=65536:65536 to your docker run command, or in docker-compose.yml:
ulimits:
  nofile:
    soft: 65536
    hard: 65536
  • System-wide (optional): add to /etc/security/limits.conf:
*       soft    nofile  1048576
*       hard    nofile  1048576
root    soft    nofile  1048576
root    hard    nofile  1048576

Build

# Cloning repo
git clone https://github.com/telemt/telemt 
# Changing Directory to telemt
cd telemt
# Starting Release Build
cargo build --release
# Move to /bin
mv ./target/release/telemt /bin
# Make executable
chmod +x /bin/telemt
# Lets go!
telemt config.toml

Why Rust?

  • Long-running reliability and idempotent behavior
  • Rust's deterministic resource management - RAII
  • No garbage collector
  • Memory safety and reduced attack surface
  • Tokio's asynchronous architecture

Issues

Roadmap

  • Public IP in links
  • Config Reload-on-fly
  • Bind to device or IP for outbound/inbound connections
  • Adtag Support per SNI / Secret
  • Fail-fast on start + Fail-soft on runtime (only WARN/ERROR)
  • Zero-copy, minimal allocs on hotpath
  • DC Healthchecks + global fallback
  • No global mutable state
  • Client isolation + Fair Bandwidth
  • Backpressure-aware IO
  • "Secret Policy" - SNI / Secret Routing :D
  • Multi-upstream Balancer and Failover
  • Strict FSM per handshake
  • Session-based Antireplay with Sliding window, non-broking reconnects
  • Web Control: statistic, state of health, latency, client experience...