NymVPN (Nym)

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Nym/NymVPN is a decentralized VPN network that aims to offer full privacy and/or anonymity with decentralization, open source, no-logs policy, some unique traffic obfuscation features and anonymous payment and signup/login

Why I think this tool should be added

It has been independently audited:

One of them being Cure53 which is a famous auditor.
It’s fully open souce (so not just clients but also there’s the nym repo itself and some others)

Privacy policy of apps state they will not log your data unless it is on a legal basis (If it’s decentralized and anonymous though how they’re gonna do it though, unless they can use the third parties but :thinking:, and anyways I guess that can be confirmed with it’s open source nature)

Your internet activity while using NymVPN services is not monitored, recorded, logged, stored, or passed to any third party, unless doing so is required by applicable law, e.g. in case of a lawful intercept request, required for providing the NymVPN services, required for billing and debt collection purposes or you have granted consent to this (by enabling telemetry).

They have Litepapers and whitepapers outlining alot of those things that can be combined with the open source code and other things:

(Optional but helpful criteria)
they have their roadmap open over at trello: Trello

Section on Privacy Guides

Virtual Private Network (VPN)

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Marking this rejected for now until they officially release:

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yep sure.

Actually it would be waiting :wink:

I do wonder if we should have an entirely separate category and criteria for decentralized VPNs. We’ll have to consider this.

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just linking to their showcase as @marc did go over how nym works within the criteria

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Thanks all. Happy to answer more questions here. A valuable resource to many of the questions raised is our “Trust Center”: Trust Center | Nym

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Actually it’s already available I misinterpreted the blog post.

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Welcome to the forum @marc

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Yes it is! It’s effectively a free WireGuard (actually AmneziaWG) dVPN and mixnet, available on 5 major platforms (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows), and run by reputable scientists, cryptographers and privacy people. Worth giving it a try (and sharing your feedback with us :slightly_smiling_face:) before we switch to the paid version in March!

Caveats apply depending on your use cases and threat model (no killswitch yet, no post-quantum, etc., see Nym and NymVPN - Next-gen privacy with mixnet and VPN service - #4 by marc).

Thanks :slight_smile:

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