Hi, following this topic , I’m curious to know, would SPN be recommended instead of using a VPN? [image] Safing Portmaster - SPN Features Portmaster is a free and open-source application that puts you back in charge over all your computer's network connections. Increase your privacy and …

[image] win11.shading291: Could you elaborate on the games / torrenting part? Some games like Elden Ring use a P2P connection for their online multiplayer. Using the SPN and running a P2P connection like that is asking for latency issues, even with just one connection it can cause problems. V…

[image] ignoramous: the protocol itself has inherent guarantees I think this is what is generally always implied by the term “multi-party relay,” as opposed to simply connecting to a VPN via another VPN or something. I think Safing can do this separation, although I’m not sure how many nodes …

Safing uses onion routing already, so on a protocol level it does provide this separation between hops. I think many if not most nodes are run by Safing alone though, so there are still other ways they could correlate traffic. My understanding is that this is where community nodes come into play. S…

[image] Anon47486929: Community nodes would fail to solve the issue I am imagining because it is again similar to the Tor network. MPR requires strict separation between the entities The Tor network does solve this problem already by routing traffic through random unaffiliated nodes, so I’m n…

[image] Anon47486929: You → Tor Entry Node → Tor Middle Node → Tor Exit node → Unencrypted traffic … You → MPR Entry Operator → MPR Exit operator → Encrypted traffic You misunderstand MASQUE & Tor. There’s nothing stopping “You” from sending encrypted (exit) traffic (or unencrypted, for th…

I gotta say I was using (paying) Safings SPN pretty much from the beginning and there was a lots of cases where it didn’t work well. Some sites just didn’t load, some blocked the connection and it was way too slow when waking up my computer sometimes requiring to restart the SPN. Also while I love t…

do you know any vpn that offers different vpn server for each website like SPN does ? , afaik only expressvpn added this a few months ago , but having proprietary clients is one of many reasons i don’t like them and would prefer a privacy respecting alternative

I have read their blogs and guides related to SPN vs VPN, but I am not sure how changing connected VPN servers for each connection (actually, each website or origin?) like SPN does offers privacy and security advantages over a regular VPN. It may be that by changing the destination server for each …

Ah, so it was announced. There will likely be a vpn integration in portmaster.

I would say that most common threat models are ok with a single or double VPN hops. In the worst case you can have a system wide VPN with one browser excluded, and in that browser you can have a VPN addon for other server if there is some activity you don’t want to be associated with your usuals. I…

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Well, with the recent acquisition by IVPN, the team is theoretically going to be growing and hopefully development will speed up as well.

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