The VP.net, is a service from Private Internet Access founder Andrew Lee that eliminates the classic “just trust your VPN” problem by locking identity mapping and traffic management within Intel SGX encapsulations.
The company promises “cryptographically verifiable privacy” using special hardware “cages” (Intel SGX). So even the provider can’t track what its users are doing.
Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) is a set of CPU instructions that create a secure environment, called an enclave, within a computer's memory to protect sensitive data and code from unauthorized access, even by the operating system or administrator. It is a hardware-based security technology designed to enhance the confidentiality and integrity of data in use.
The design goal is that no one, not even the same VPN company, can connect “User X” to “Website Y”.
Lee states:
“Our zero trust solution doesn’t require you to trust us – and that’s how it should be. Your privacy should depend on your choice, not some random VPN provider in some random foreign country.”
The team behind VP.net includes CEO Matt Kim, as well as arguably Bitcoin's earliest veterans, Roger Ver and Mark Karpeles.
Question: Now that there’s a VPN where you don’t have to “just trust the provider” – perhaps the first true zero trust VPN, are trust-based VPNs obsolete?
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
