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by zhan_eg
3436 days ago
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The source of the VPN servers is vpngate.net - an academic research that started 2013, at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. From their about [0] page: - You can get through the government's firewall to browse restricted web sites (e.g. YouTube).
- You can disguise your IP address to hide your identity while surfing the Internet.
- You can protect yourself by utilizing its strong encryption while using public Wi-Fi.
The list of servers (on the main url) gives throughput and others stats and you can support them by creating a node [1].They use SoftEther for VPN server - does someone have any experience with it? [0] http://www.vpngate.net/en/about_overview.aspx
[1] http://www.vpngate.net/en/join.aspx |
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It looks like a research project that was then unsuccessfully commercialized, and then released to the public somewhat hastily.
The code quality leaves a lot to be desired (there is nothing offensive, but it still does not inspire confidence for there not being security bugs), and the code style is not great either. The amount of marketing copytext is disproportionately large to the amount of code comments and design documentation.
It generally seems to go for a everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach in terms of features (which is not a bad thing per se, but an approach that I dislike). The SoftEther repository is 280k lines of C and headers, while OpenVPN is 80k.