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Brave, the company behind the eponymous browser, presented the world's first distributed virtual private network (VPN). The new form of VPN has no central authority and will function as a peer-to-peer network to preserve the privacy of its users.<\/p>\n

Laying the foundation for a decentralized VPN system<\/h2>\n

The research and development team from Brave<\/a> published a paper<\/a> that will pave the way for a decentralized VPN network. Developed by Dr. Matteo Varvello et. al., the research<\/a> presents the first distributed virtual private network.<\/p>\n

Brave said<\/a> that VPN-0 will offer a traffic authorization and validation mechanism that will preserve users' privacy. It will be a new generation decentralized virtual private networks (dVPN), which offer a certain amount of privacy but also carry the risk of spreading harmful or illegal network traffic to users.<\/p>\n

The company's VPN-0 tackles the problems dVPNs face around performance, privacy guarantees, and traffic accountability. Brave's research and development team integrated VPN-0 with BitTorrent<\/a>\u2019s DHT<\/a> (Mainline<\/a>) and ProtonVPN<\/a>, a popular VPN provider, which demonstrated the feasibility of the next generation of VPNs.<\/p>\n

Zero-knowledge protection<\/h2>\n

According to Brave, VPN-0 allows relay nodes to control which<\/i> traffic they transmit, without learning what content<\/i> it contains, unlike decentralized VPNs. This is done through a novel application of zero-knowledge proofs, a cryptographic technique that allows a prover<\/i> to prove to a verifier<\/i> that a certain statement is true without disclosing any information except the validity of the statement, the company explained.<\/p>\n

The main problem Brave's team encountered was how a VPN-0 client can prove to a VPN-0 relay that the traffic it is sending is on the set of domains the relay is willing to carry traffic for. To do that, they leveraged a class of distributed systems that provide lookup services called Distributed Hash Tables (DHT). This is all done without the relay ever knowing what kind of content is being accessed.<\/p>\n

Brave's preliminary testing results showed that while this approach was feasible, it still needed more research in order to speed up the zero-knowledge calculations in VPN-0. However, the company said it believes the strong privacy guarantees offered by VPN-0 will encourage the development of more VPN solutions and protocols.<\/p>\n

The company said it believes such a VPN system could be combined with a set of incentives around a utility token, such as its native BAT<\/a>, which could be used to compensate users that carry traffic and enable subscriptions and services to be paid in BAT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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