minibolt-guide / minibolt

A step-by-step guide to building a Bitcoin & Lightning node, and other stuff on a personal computer
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[NEW BONUS GUIDE] Wireguard VPN #30

Closed twofaktor closed 1 year ago

twofaktor commented 1 year ago

What

This PR proposes a new bonus guide to securely and privately remote access your MiniBolt node through the Wireguard server installed on MiniBolt and Wireguard client on your clients.

Why

We seek to connect to our own server without exposing our real IP to the rest of the network for security and privacy reasons, and at the same time to avoid using Tor for latency reasons

How

A complete guide explaining step by step how to build it

Scope

1ma commented 1 year ago

@twofaktor completed & ready to review.

1ma commented 1 year ago

Why

We seek to connect to our own server without exposing our real IP to the rest of the network for security and privacy reasons, and at the same time to avoid using Tor for latency reasons

WireGuard doesn't do anything to try to hide your IP, like Tor. But it makes it possible to access your MiniBolt services from outside your home network without having to open their ports to the internet.

WireGuard's traffic itself is encrypted, but it can be seen going to and from your real IP address.

twofaktor commented 1 year ago

I merged this PR with changes of other topics wrongly, migrated to #38