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andrewlkho / debian-strongswan.md
Last active January 3, 2024 03:39
Setting up a secure VPN with strongSwan on debian

With heightening concern regarding the state of internet privacy (fuelled in part by the passing of the Investigatory Powers Act in the UK), I have set up a VPN server on the virtual server I have hosted with Mythic Beasts. This uses strongSwan and certificate-based IKEv2 authentication.

Assumptions:

  • Debian Jessie server already set up and accessible via debian.example.com, a public IPv4 of 203.0.113.1 and a public IPv6 of 2001:db8::1
  • Client username of me
  • Clients are running the latest versions of macOS and iOS (Sierra and 10 respectively at the time of writing)
  • No need to support any other operating systems (although the setup is easily translated)

For automated deployment of a similar setup, albeit Ubuntu-based and using ansible for deployment, I recommend you take a look at Algo VPN. I used that project as a basis for my configuration.

@april
april / invite-tree.sh
Created May 9, 2023 01:55
get your invite tree on bluesky
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $(curl -s --json '{"identifier": "yourusername", "password": "yourpassword"}' https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.server.createSession | jq -j ".accessJwt")" "https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.server.getAccountInviteCodes" | jq -r '.codes[].uses[].usedBy' | xargs -I{} -P10 curl -s 'https://plc.directory/{}' | jq -r '.alsoKnownAs[0]'