How difficult/reasonable would it be to build an iOS/Android/desktop app/front-end to sshuttle VPN?
Just found out about sshuttle VPN a week ago, and have been absolutely loving the simplicity of getting the tunnel setup and running.
From a cursory view, it seems like building an iOS or Android (or desktop) front-end shouldn't be too hard – but I haven't done mobile development since Palm OS 15 year ago, and so am probably falling into the "it can't be that hard to build" camp.
Background on what sshuttle offers / performance comparison to other VPN and VPN-like offerings
sshuttle seems somewhat similar to Outline (associated sub: /r/outlinevpn), but much lighter weight.
From checking the 5 "what do I leak" services I found a while back, sshuttle leaks less data (other than my IPv6 address (which I'm pretty sure I can fix – just haven't gotten there yet)), with less tunnel overhead (likely due to how it handles TCP sessions – (https://sshuttle.readthedocs.io/en/stable/how-it-works.html – it doesn't run TCP over TCP like a normal ssh portforward does)).
Performance-wise, it's also quite a bit faster than OpenVPN in my testing (I ran OpenVPN on the same endpoint so I get the best possible comparison).
Back to the actual question(s):
- For any of you who do development in your spare time (or even full time), how hard would it be to build such a utility?
- Presuming it's not too difficult to build, is this a plausible "learn to write apps on XVT platform (like a "My First Swift App", for example)?
- Is there already an extant front-end that I could leverage/use instead?
Apologies if there's a better sub to aim this question towards …please point me in the right direction(s) if this should go elsewhere ?
Submitted March 27, 2020 at 12:52PM
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