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Outline – Self Hosted VPN by Google's Jigsaw

67 points by ploggingdev 9y ago

khc 9y ago
Page is blank in firefox 60.0b5
Seanld 9y ago
Page displays undefined two times in my browser (not sure what that would be, most likely Android WebView since I'm on Materialistic).
- inetsee 9y 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.
- Firerouge 9y ago
  It does however work in Chrome Mobile
7ewis 9y ago
Is this something like Streisand [1]? Where it just configures a server to run a VPN service. [1] - https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand
- asselinpaul 9y ago
  Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.
atonse 9y ago
I want something that looks this polished but to be a WireGuard client. :-)
stralatew 9y ago
Someone has tested it in China and it can get around the Great Firewall. http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china/ 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 9y 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.
  - stralatew 9y ago
    Outline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect. https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
    - xucheng 8y ago
      There were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/
Jyaif 9y ago
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 9y ago
  It is private and permissioned. You deploy the software on a server and create / send access keys to users you know.
jcrben 8y ago
Dan Guido, the author of AlgoVPN (https://github.com/trailofbits/algo https://github.com/trailofbits/algo), says this is basically just a copy of it https://mobile.twitter.com/dguido/status/976143448624508928 https://mobile.twitter.com/dguido/status/976143448624508928
- xucheng 8y 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/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1991 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14

67 points by ploggingdev 9y ago

khc 9y ago

Page is blank in firefox 60.0b5

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

inetsee 9y 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.
Firerouge 9y ago
It does however work in Chrome Mobile

7ewis 9y ago

Is this something like Streisand [1]? Where it just configures a server to run a VPN service. [1] - https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand https://github.com/StreisandEffect/streisand

asselinpaul 9y ago
Looks like it. Interested to know how it compares.

atonse 9y ago

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

stralatew 9y ago

Someone has tested it in China and it can get around the Great Firewall. http://startuplivingchina.com/how-to-outline-vpn-setup-china/ 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 9y 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.
- stralatew 9y ago
  Outline uses Shadowsocks (socks5 proxy) instead of OpenVPN, which makes it harder to detect. https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html https://shadowsocks.org/en/index.html
  - xucheng 8y ago
    There were several reports that DPI can detect shadowsocks. For example http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8048116/

Jyaif 9y ago

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 9y ago
It is private and permissioned. You deploy the software on a server and create / send access keys to users you know.

jcrben 8y ago

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

xucheng 8y 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/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1991 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14 https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-client/issues/14