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I wonder if Wireguard is dynamic and lightweight enough to be hacked into re-implementing something like tor but that dynamically shuffles data paths in flight

• mirimir 7y ago
  Good point! Actually, that works well enough with OpenVPN. I've managed a crude setup that switches two-hop nested VN chains at 10 minute intervals.[0] I should also have mentioned the Orchid app for Android (and perhaps soon for iOS).[1] It implements dynamic multi-hop routing, and reputation-based route selection. As I understand it, commercial VPNs are providing OpenVPN servers for the network, and I would hope that each hop uses a different provider. Users buy bandwidth with supposedly anonymous Etherium-based cryptocurrency. Orchid may provide privacy and anonymity that's at least comparable to do-it-yourself nested VPN chains, and perhaps comparable to Tor. In that you're distributing information and trust among multiple providers, who are paid anonymously. And it's obviously far less work than nested VPN chains. But as with Tor, there's the downside of trusting a complex system, which you likely won't understand well. There's also the issue that current smartphones are so horribly insecure that using such tools arguably provides merely an illusion of security, privacy and anonymity. 0) https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains https://github.com/mirimir/vpnchains 1) https://www.orchid.com/ https://www.orchid.com/