NostrVPN

[marcusquinn]

Could be interesting:

• https://nostrvpn.org/
• https://github.com/mmalmi/nostr-vpn
• https://git.iris.to/#/npub1xdhnr9mrv47kkrn95k6cwecearydeh8e895990n3acntwvmgk2dsdeeycm/nostr-vpn

Very new, so caution advised...

• https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2056774252490317976?s=20

[timconsidine]

@marcusquinn sounds v good

[marcusquinn]

@timconsidine Yes, the developer's got the background for decentralisation with Bitcoin development, and seems to thing he's getting speeds close to regular Wireguard.

Only gotchya is the network remains small at the moment, so it's only useful as more of a Tailscale/Netbird alternative for now. Then, for the network to grow, more people will have to opt-in to sharing their IP & unused bandwidth as exit nodes.

[marcusquinn]

Thinking about it more, it's the kind of thing you could use to take your Cloudron servers/apps completely private to be only accessible by users via your own private NostrVPN.

Thoughts as integrating as a Cloudron server/app feature @girish @nebulon ?

[james]

Hello @marcusquinn
I have tinkered with Nostr VPN on Monday and must say it is a very interesting project.
But also still in its early development. I encountered many issues and hurdles.
So if the project matures a bit we might look into that.

[marcusquinn]

@james yeah, early days for sure!

Cloudron is all about privacy and sovereignty, though, so being able to have a private network and infrastructure by design i'm sure will be the icing on the cake.

The best of the mature alternatives from all I've tested is Netbird, so maybe that's the first option, and NostrVPN can be added as an alt when it matures:

• https://forum.cloudron.io/post/83775
• https://forum.cloudron.io/post/82860
• https://forum.cloudron.io/post/120595

[robi]

@james Were you able to provide feedback here or to the upstream project of our interest and issues and hurdles so we can get custom app packaging interest?

[girish]

@marcusquinn what can i say it's in the never ending list of platform features to add.

[marcusquinn]

@girish that's true!

thankfully never had any Cloudron security breaches, but the existence of all apps is visible to the public web, and with AI now able to find zero-day exploits so quickly, data-security risks are increasing

one way to mitigate that is if the apps were limited to access only from those with access to it via their mesh vpn

maybe it's already possible with asking AI to set all that up, but i'm just thinking out loud for the ordinary person that might not want to tinker with that and just have it as a an option out of the box