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NymVPN

by Nym Technologies SA

Decentralized, mixnet, and zero-knowledge VPN

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0-only v2026.12.4
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About

Desktop application for NymVPN.

NymVPN is a decentralized, mixnet and zero-knowledge VPN. Features:

  • 5-hop Anonymous mode (using the Nym Mixnet)
  • 2-hop Fast mode (using WireGuard)
  • No centralized logs
  • Hide your public IP
  • Entry and exit hop location

NOTE: This package only provides the client application. For the VPN to work, the daemon aka nym-vpnd, must be installed and running. You can install it from these separate packages:

  • deb package (requires to setup the Nym deb repository): nym-vpnd
  • AUR packages: nym-vpnd and nym-vpnd-bin

For more details, please check https://nym.com/en/download/linux

Alternatively you can get the binary directly from the GitHub releases:

- Go to https://github.com/nymtech/nym-vpn-client/releases - Find the latest release with tag nym-vpn-core-v1.2.3 - Download the linux archive nym-vpn-core-v1.2.3_linux_x86_64.tar.gz and extract the binary (make it executable) - From a terminal, run sudo nym-vpnd

NOTE: The daemon requires root privileges to work.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to /var/log/nym-vpnd
    --filesystem=/var/log/nym-vpnd:ro
  • access to /run/nym-vpn.sock
    --filesystem=/run/nym-vpn.sock:ro

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

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