NymVPN
by Nym Technologies SA
Decentralized, mixnet, and zero-knowledge VPN
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
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- 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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