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Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by mathgenius »

apocalyptic0n3 wrote: post #260
kabacha wrote: post #253

I've been using NordVPN mostly because I know the few guys who work on it (some of the best engineers in Lithuania IMHO), but even more so because they have some great arch community packages etc. I've been mostly using this easy cli: https://github.com/nstinus/nordvpn Managing openvpn can get really awkward especially if you're not keen on learning everything about it. Though my input might not be very valuable beca…

> I only care about geoblocked content and torrents. I thought Nord blocked (at least some) P2P? I always hear great things about Nord, but their P2P support always gets some bad reviews when I go looking on sites like Reddit, Ars, LTT, and TorrentFreak (at least in the comments).

Not if you use one of their servers in sweden.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

throwawaymath wrote: post #101
rb666 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Read this on Wireguard: https://restoreprivacy.com/wireguard/ Be aware.

The claim that Wireguard has not had a security audit is false[1][2]. It's based on the extremely robust Noise protocol framework, it has a formally verified Tamarin security model and two of the most well-known cryptographers in the world have personally reviewed it with no significant findings. Wireguard also does not do any of the logging claimed by that article by default. I know this because I maintain Wireguard…

>Wireguard also does not do any of the logging claimed by that article by default

It might not do the logging, but it still maintains state about which IP has connected using which key, and when the client last sent a handshake.

I have no idea how persistent this information is, but i can see from my Ubnt router, running WireGuard, that clients that haven't connected in weeks are still present in the Wg command status.

It's not an issue for me, but if you were trying to hide information, that information is a pretty bit smoking gun. It directly ties your IP to the VPN IP.

Assuming the rest of the VPN network is using shared IP addresses, and still maintains no logging, it might not be enough to prove that you're the one behind whatever they are searching for.

Then again, not all countries care that much about the "innocent until proven guilty" principle.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by dspillett »

eptcyka wrote: post #242
chrisper wrote: post #204

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could start here: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Gigabit_Networks_... >It is easily possible to saturate a 100 Mbps network using an OpenVPN tunnel. The throughput of the tunnel will be very close to the throughput of regular network interface. On gigabit networks and faster this is not so easy to achieve. This page explains how to increase the throughput of a VPN tunnel to near-linespeed for a 1 Gbps…

Have you read the code? It's woefully unparallelisable and is written to support more platforms rather than work better on any single one of them.

> woefully unparallelisable

It certainly doesn't use multiple cores for a single connection, though I've never tested (or reviewed the code) to see if it does manage to spread the computational load of multiple connections over more CPU resource.

I've not read the above linked article in detail (no time ATM) but there seems to be mention of offloading AES calculations to compatible hardware, so the bottleneck would appear to be CPU use.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by SCdF »

kabacha wrote: post #257
SCdF wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have lived in the UK and NZ.

LMAO - Probably the worst two countries to trust your ISP. Both are five eyes countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes#Domestic_espionage_s...

If by countries you mean the west end of europe and north america then yes, 5 eyes is a comparatively shitty indictment of those countries regard for their citizen's privacy.

You're ignoring continents worth of countries and billions of people to get there though.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by markshawn »

Been using PureVPN for 1+ year and it works great so far. The connection speed is decent, the app is easy to use, and their live chat support is on point. Fulfills all your requirements too. OpenVPN can be used directly with the app and can be manually configured on other platforms. The SOCKS5 (Proxy) comes with their Chrome/Firefox extension which can be also be used on Windows, MAC, and Linux except for mobile devices.

Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?

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Post by adsadadsad »

QualityReboot wrote: post #141
rb666 wrote: post #89

Have used many, the one that stuck is AirVPN. Best capabilities and Linux support.

I agree. I've been using airvpn with pfsense for a while now. The connection is reliable, I can have multiple connections to multiple regions, and it's simple to route an entire vlan out of a particular VPN.

Was hoping for a bit more diversity in Singapore - Seems only seven VPN nodes - leaseweb and M247.
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