Quantum resistant connections

[trymeouteh]

Feature request

Description

VPN connections that are quantum resistant

Describe the solution you'd like

Quantum resistant wireguard protocol on desktop and mobile.

Describe alternatives you've considered

None. Many governments are storing encrypted internet traffic today and will decrypt it in the future when quantum computers are reliable.

Mullvad VPN have recently added quantum resistant connections and Mullvad is open source.

[johnnyburnaway]

Thanks for the request. It's on our roadmap for this quarter to investigate its implementation, we will share more on this later.

[stenya]

Requirements: https://privatus.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/3636887553/Implementation+Quantum-Resistance+VPN+Connections

Ticket for backend: https://github.com/ivpn/go-services/issues/216

[stenya]

@gorkapernas v3.10.24_STAGING

[gorkapernas]

Some early notes:

• Improvement -> After updating IVPN version from a none quantum resistant build to the latest (with quantum resistant), the quantum resistant functionality will be initially disabled, the user needs to regenerate the WG key in order to enable quantum resistant. Perhaps we could improve this?

• Issue -> When uninstalling the latest IVPN version 3.10.24, the app does not remove the KEM folder containing the binary kem-helper. The uninstaller should remove everything from the IVPN app.

[stenya]

• Issue -> When uninstalling the latest IVPN version 3.10.24, the app does not remove the KEM folder containing the binary kem-helper. The uninstaller should remove everything from the IVPN app.

Commit with the fix: https://github.com/ivpn/desktop-app/commit/64dee05709b4ddd767c667ec624e2b284193b22a

[stenya]

@gorkapernas v3.10.27

[stenya]

v3.10.30 (production)

[gorkapernas]

The quantum resistant feature has been tested thoroughly for the past few weeks in all desktop platforms and it is ready to be released in the public beta channel.

[stenya]

released in v3.11.5 (beta)