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Federated wireguard network idea
Any feedback welcome.

Let's keep things stupidly simple and simply hash the domain name to get a unique IPv6 ULA prefix.

Then we would need a stupidly simple backend application to automatically fetch pubkeys and endpoints from DNS and make a request to add each others as peers.

Et voilà, you got a worldwide federated wireguard network resolving private ULA addresses. Sort of an internet on top of the internet .

The DNS entries with the public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses could even be delegated to other domains / endpoints which would act as reverse proxy (either routing or nesting tunnels) for further privacy.

Maybe my approach is too naïve and there are flaws I haven't considered, so don't be afraid to comment.

Exact use cases? Idk, but it sounds nifty.

#privacy #networking #VPN #wireguard #infosec

cc: @fediverse

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[–] fenwickrysen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's how TOR works. It's amazing.

https://youtu.be/QRYzre4bf7I?si=gY1e4tORIoxwuRTx

And here's how Onion hidden services work...

https://youtu.be/lVcbq_a5N9I?si=PuJwHP0rEPKFkCBb

TOR lets journalists do their job safely from dangerous places, lets whistle-blowers report things we should know, and lets people in oppressive regimes see the rest of the Internet that their government blocks. It's an amazing tool.