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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by bawolff on Friday October 16, 2020 @12:48AM (#24797586)
Hmm. Dont see any white paper or design docs on their website. Did i miss it.

At a glance sounds like a reinvention of Tor, but less secure.

Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by liotier on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:07AM (#24798339)
It is Tor - if my teenage self had designed it in the late 90's
Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by yjftsjthsd-h on Friday October 16, 2020 @01:40AM (#24797843)
> At a glance sounds like a reinvention of Tor, but less secure.

...and with every client also acting as an exit node, which is kinda a big deal.

Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by bawolff on Friday October 16, 2020 @12:04PM (#24802151)
Its not just that though. There are lots of privacy attacks on this kind of system that you have to be careful to avoid.

How easy is it in this system to force a specific user to use you as their exit node during a targeted attack? Given the state of their website, i am going to guess pretty easy.

Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by ian-bateman on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:13AM (#24798017)
There are a lot more technical details on the project README page here!: https://github.com/freepn/fpnd/blob/master/README.rst
Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by eps on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:56AM (#24798634)
This is really shallow.

You are trying to cater to a privacy-minded audience yet you provide literally no information on how the whole thing works. I don't think you fully understand how crucial a very detailed technical spec is for the adoption of a tool like this.

The first question with any P2P project is if I have any control over other people's traffic that passes through my system. No mention of this anywhere, leave alone a detailed discussion. I saw your replies here on this subject and they are ultimately... inane if you pardon the bluntness. I realize that you mean well, but you are exceptionally naive in terms of how quickly a system like this will be abused to a very severe degree.