What are example use cases?

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Official repository of OnionCat, the VPN adapter for Tor and I2P.

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What are example use cases? #33

Closed cm157 closed 3 years ago

cm157 commented 3 years ago

I am obviously not that tech literate but i have always been really curious what this software is and how people might use it for privacy?

Can people give me examples ?

rahra commented 3 years ago

Basically it is a VPN adapter which works on top of Tor or I2P. Thus, you can create a VPN between several nodes (computers, servers, whatever) so that they can directly communicate to each other without using direct Internet connections. The primary use-case is to hide from any kind of surveillance but still have a completely IP-transparent connection between systems.

cm157 commented 3 years ago

So its like PC1 -- VPN Ingress --- Tor --- VPN Egress -- PC2 ?

rahra commented 3 years ago

Yes, exactly. You can have more than just 2 PCs.

rahra commented 3 years ago

I close this since I think it is answered. Don't hesitate to reopen it again if there are further questions.