Outline – Self Hosted VPN by Google's Jigsaw (opens in new tab)

(getoutline.org)

67 pointsploggingdev8y ago15 comments

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stralatew8y ago· 2 in thread

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.

cromwellian8y ago

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.

stralatew8y ago

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

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

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Seanld8y ago· 2 in thread

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

inetsee8y ago

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.

Firerouge8y ago

It does however work in Chrome Mobile

7ewis8y ago· 1 in thread

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

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

asselinpaul8y ago

Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.

Jyaif8y ago· 1 in thread

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?

stralatew8y ago

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

jcrben8y ago· 1 in thread

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

xucheng8y ago

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

khc8y ago

Page is blank in firefox 60.0b5

atonse8y ago

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

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15 comments

14 comments · 7 top-level

stralatew8y ago· 2 in thread

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.

cromwellian8y ago

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.

stralatew8y ago

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

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

1 more reply

Seanld8y ago· 2 in thread

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

inetsee8y ago

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.

Firerouge8y ago

It does however work in Chrome Mobile

7ewis8y ago· 1 in thread

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

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

asselinpaul8y ago

Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.

Jyaif8y ago· 1 in thread

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?

stralatew8y ago

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

jcrben8y ago· 1 in thread

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

xucheng8y ago

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

khc8y ago

Page is blank in firefox 60.0b5

atonse8y ago

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

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