MAmarcodiego·Aug 9, 2025Submission
Constant-traffic padded and encrypted network tunnel
3 points · Open discussionmarkasoftware
i405-tunnel
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markasoftware / i405-tunnel
i405-tunnel
Constant-traffic padded and encrypted network tunnel. Can be used to form "Interstate Circuits" and anonymously access the Internet.
2Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Constant-traffic padded and encrypted network tunnel. Can be used to form "Interstate Circuits" and anonymously access the Internet.
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Where it is used
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This week on Hacker News
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HN mentions by day3 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2025-07-27 18:37:42 UTC to 2025-08-09 12:31:31 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Jul 27 | 2025-07-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 28 | 2025-07-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 29 | 2025-07-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 30 | 2025-07-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 31 | 2025-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 1 | 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2 | 2025-08-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 3 | 2025-08-03 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 4 | 2025-08-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 5 | 2025-08-05 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 6 | 2025-08-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-07 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 7 | 2025-08-07 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 8 | 2025-08-08 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 9 | 2025-08-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-08-10 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesIt depends on your threat model. Tor is focused on hiding from small-scale passive adversaries (eg, you're in Iran and don't want the Iranian government to see what you're doing. Or your ISP. Or any single node operator). Even the original Tor paper makes it clear that Tor isn't secure against a "global passive adversary" that can observe a large portion of global internet traffic, like the five eyes likely can today.
If you want to avoid global passive adversaries, a mixnet like Nym can work. I'm also working on a related project which takes a different approach of building your own circuit of proxy servers manually with lots of traffic padding: https://github.com/markasoftware/i405-tunnel
In Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacyI'm writing an encrypted and padded IP tunnel to help people build their own multi-hop circuits to access the internet anonymously, without Tor, and with protection from end-to-end correlation attacks.
https://github.com/markasoftware/i405-tunnel
In Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)