fully open-source client for expressvpn lightway

expressvpn / lightway-core

Lightway Core is a modern VPN protocol by ExpressVPN, to deliver a VPN experience that’s faster, more secure, and more reliable.

https://www.expressvpn.com/lightway

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fully open-source client for expressvpn lightway #70

Closed milahu closed 1 year ago

milahu commented 1 year ago

im looking for an actual "open-source" client for expressvpn lightway

i do not want an open-source core with a closed-source app

platform: linux

alternatives:

https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections for wireguard at privateinternetaccess.com
https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli for wireguard at protonvpn.com

see also

https://fosspost.org/linux-vpn-clients-providers/

mrbluecoat commented 1 year ago

Agreed. Even a ToyVPN version of Lightway would be great for learning how to embed the library and hook it up to a simple GUI.

expressvpn-pete-m commented 1 year ago

We have a reference implementation called Lightway Laser which is available here:

https://github.com/expressvpn/lightway-laser

We are planning to release more robust open source clients as part of our Rust implementation. Unfortunately I can't give an ETA for this at the moment.

mrbluecoat commented 1 year ago

I'm guessing AArch64 isn't supported? Your reference implementation wouldn't build with either Docker or manual ceedling build.

# uname -m && cat /etc/os-release 
aarch64
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.2 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy