NymVPN (Nym)

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@TrashPanda

I am concerned about Nyms’ decision to ship NymVPN as an AppImage. This is, in my opinion an unpopular decision, as fuse2 is unmaintained and is SUID root dependent.

Thanks for the feedback, what would be your recommendation? Only offering Flatpak?

@Alvah.Lind64

I’ll keep an eye on the roadmap items for access to LAN and split tunnelling, I plan to try Nym when those features land.

Access to LAN should be here next week. Split tunneling is a bit more involved. As a v1 we want to offer basic split tunneling (either inside or outside of NymVPN). The long term vision is a more advanced split tunneling (mixnet or VPN or outside) - likely not doable on all platforms.

@jerm

because it needs to meet their new criteria which will take time to set a decent one

I believe we provided evidence on most of the criteria (Nym and NymVPN - Next-gen privacy with mixnet and VPN service - #4 by nym-product). The killswitch got added in the meantime FYI. We do understand that the community is debating the privacy properties/risks of dVPNs and wants to see the effects of time.

I’ll let @ania @cdiaz reply on the 2 other questions.