Outline – Self Hosted VPN by Google's Jigsaw

[ploggingdev]

https://getoutline.org/en/home

[stralatew]

Someone has tested it in China and it can get around the Great Firewall.

http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china...

I imagine a multitude of small privately run VPNs will be much harder for the Chinese government to shutdown versus centralized VPN providers.

[cromwellian → stralatew]

They don’t just block based on IP, they also do deep packet inspection so if you use say, the OpenVPN protocol without changes, it can be blocked even on a private server.

[stralatew → cromwellian]

Outline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect.

https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html

[xucheng → stralatew]

There were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/

[7ewis]

Is this something like Streisand [1]? Where it just configures a server to run a VPN service.

[1] - https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

[asselinpaul → 7ewis]

Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.

[Jyaif]

Sounds very very cool. Possibly the simplest way for us geeks to support democracy. I with there was a FAQ though because I have questions:

-Can I restrict the traffic? (e.g. I don't want illegal downloads coming from my IP)

-How do people discover your VPN? Is there a central repo which lists all Outline VPNs?

[stralatew → Jyaif]

It is private and permissioned. You deploy the software on a server and create / send access keys to users you know.

[khc]

Page is blank in firefox 60.0b5

[atonse]

I want something that looks this polished but to be a WireGuard client. :-)

[jcrben]

Dan Guido, the author of AlgoVPN (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo), says this is basically just a copy of it https://mobile.twitter.com/dguido/status/976143448624508928

[xucheng → jcrben]

The claim is bogus. The outline is a just wrapper of shadowsocks, an open source SOCKS5 proxy tool developed since 2012.

However, the outline in its current form may indeed have certain license issue.

https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1991

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14

[Seanld]

Page displays undefined two times in my browser (not sure what that would be, most likely Android WebView since I'm on Materialistic).

[inetsee → Seanld]

On my browser (Firefox 59.0.1), the page displays "undefined" in a couple of places, then, after a couple of seconds, it displays what appears to be the complete, correct page.

[Firerouge → Seanld]

It does however work in Chrome Mobile