Note:

ChaosVPN is a VPN to connect Hackers and Hackerspaces - it does NOT provide anonymous internet access!

For this look at tor or other similar services.



It will also not help you to reach domains like .rdos, .lll, .clos or any other strange things supposed to be available on the "dark web".

Alternative: If you prefer BGP, you can also connect via https://dn42.net/, we are interconnected.

Goals

ChaosVPN is a system to connect Hackers.

Design principals include that it should be without Single Point of Failure, make usage of full encryption, use RFC1918 ip ranges, scales well on >100 connected networks and is being able to run on a embedded hardware you will find in our todays router.

It should be designed that noone sees other peoples traffic.

It should be mainly autoconfig as in that besides the joining node no administrator of the network should be in the need to acutally do something when a node joins or leaves.

If you want to find a solution for a Network without Single Point of failure, has - due to Voice over IP - low latency and that noone will see other peoples traffic you end up pretty quick with a full mesh based network.

Therefore we came up with the tinc solution. tinc does a fully meshed peer to peer network and it defines endpoints and not tunnels.

ChaosVPN connects hacker wherever they are. We connect roadwarriors with their notebook. Servers, even virtual ones in Datacenters, Hackerhouses and hackerspaces. To sum it up we connect networks - maybe down to a small /32.

So there we are. ChaosVPN is working and it seems the usage increases, more nodes join in and more sevices pop up.

For now, an overview picture of the currently connected nodes:

http://vpnhub1.hack/chaosvpn.png (only from inside ChaosVPN; updated once per hour)

http://vpnhub1.hack/chaosvpn.svg

and a simple display of node-uptimes:

Howto join ChaosVPN?

You want to join ChaosVPN and experience the awesomeness of it?

There is a short HowTo how to better mesh your own nodes using ChaosVPN.

Mailinglist

We have a mailinglist, and invite all interested persons to join.

https://www.hamburg.ccc.de/mailman/listinfo/chaosvpn

ChaosVPN 2.0

IP Ranges and Participants:

Please see IP Range for more Infos.

Other related software

DNS

See DNS

IRC

irc.hackint.hack (172.31.0.30) or irc.hackint.net - join us in #chaosvpn

VoIP

Asterisk servers allowing incoming and outgoing calls to POTS in Hannover and Hamburg hackerspaces.

Ask the admins for more information.

Requested applications

During Chaos Communication Camp 2011, participants of the ChaosVPN workshop suggested various applications:

Mirrors of interesting public FTP/WWW sites

Bittorrent trackers

Email (either transparently route email from public domains via ChaosVPN, or have .hack email addresses)

Censorship detection: service to request a public webpage from proxies at several nodes at once, compare the differences

GeoIP avoidance?

Social networking things

Varnish cache

LDAP (maybe to allow authenticating hackers against their own hackerspace's LDAP server, like Eduroam)

Multicast services (limited support in tinc, not automatically forwarded to the LANs)

TOR entry nodes in ChaosVPN

NNTP (already available on dn42)

More games!

Distributed computing (BOINC, GRID stuff)

Wanted changes

Ideas?

A collection of short term changes

Chaosvpn Geekends

Services available on ChaosVPN

Update:

If you have services you wish to be accessible to the whole of the Chaosvpn, please add your services to the online list available (within Chaosvpn) at:

http://list.weird.hack - Service list - 10.100.44.1 (but seems to be death currently)



