{"id":10579,"date":"2020-03-27T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=10579"},"modified":"2020-03-27T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T17:03:08","slug":"how-difficult-reasonable-would-it-be-to-build-an-ios-android-desktop-app-front-end-to-sshuttle-vpn-via-r-selfhosted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=10579","title":{"rendered":"How difficult\/reasonable would it be to build an iOS\/Android\/desktop app\/front-end to sshuttle VPN? via \/r\/selfhosted"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHow difficult\/reasonable would it be to build an iOS\/Android\/desktop app\/front-end to sshuttle VPN?<\/b><\/p>\n

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Just found out about sshuttle<\/a> VPN a week ago<\/a>, and have been absolutely loving<\/em> the simplicity of getting the tunnel setup and running.<\/p>\n

From a cursory view, it seems<\/em> like building an iOS or Android (or desktop) front-end shouldn't be too<\/em> 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<\/em> hard to build" camp.<\/p>\n

Background on what sshuttle offers \/ performance comparison to other VPN and VPN-like offerings<\/h3>\n

sshuttle seems somewhat similar to Outline <\/a> (associated sub: \/r\/outlinevpn<\/a>), but much<\/em> lighter weight.<\/p>\n

From checking the 5 "what do I leak" services<\/a> 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<\/a> – it doesn't run TCP over<\/em> TCP like a normal ssh portforward does)). <\/p>\n

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).<\/p>\n

Back to the actual question(s):<\/h3>\n