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0 pointsawill884y ago0 comments

To be honest, I’m pretty familiar with the top VPN providers and I’ve never heard of ExpressVPN. When I Google it, I immediately receive so many explicit ads for your service and a bunch of obviously promoted blog posts comparing garbage VPNs to your service. Creating a VPN protocol from scratch is ambitious and going to take some pretty heavy hitters to join and contribute to this protocol to gain trust in a pretty guarded community.. maybe that isn’t your intended customer though.

You say WireGuard was designed “for a different use case”.. that’s an extremely cryptic (buh dum tiss) thing to say. Do you seriously envision Mullvad or other VPN service providers adopting your protocol? At face value, I will conjecture and come from pessimistic point-of-view: this more of a niche feature of your product, appealing to a type of techy mindset where shiny new tools are somehow better.. which is playing with fire when it comes to encryption for privacy..

For anyone reading this, don’t listen to anyone here. Just go to https://privacytools.io and use those providers.

I would love to see Lightcore and ExpressVPN listed on that site someday.. good luck

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pmembrey4y ago

Native Wireguard ties keys to specific internal IP addresses or ranges. This is not an issue for many use cases such as between friends for gaming or by a business to connect remote users to their corporate network. There's no inherent security issue here.

However, this is undesirable for a VPN provider that has a focus on preserving privacy. In this case you want users to get a new IP address each time they connect so that there is nothing in common across connections. This matters to us and so Lightway has this as a core design feature. To get that in Wireguard, an additional layer needs to be added.

I certainly believe that Lightway could be an excellent alternative for any provider who doesn't want (or isn't able) to implement Wireguard. Lightway is Open Source and it has had a full security audit that has been publicly released. Other providers are most welcome to look at Lightway and decide for themselves whether they think it offers them anything of value.

bern44444y ago

ExpressVPN is a very well known VPN service IMO. I've certainly heard of it from several people, and seen it often in lists of VPN recommendations. Can't speak to the other points you raise, but ExpressVPN is certainly a known company in the field...

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