[guardian-dev] Using Android VPN settings to secure all outbound traffic (without it actually being a VPN)

[Nathan of Guardian]

On March 11, 2014 4:12:08 AM CDT, Matej Kovacic <matej.kovacic at owca.info> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>> The upshot of it is that by using the VPN framework (Android 4.x and
>up
>> I believe?) which doesn't require root, you can encourage all your
>> traffic down a TAP/TUN interface, and then perform your filtering
>
>OpenVPN for Android also works similar way. You do not need root
>access.
>

Work on OrbotVPN is underway. There is even a github repo.

The main challenge is that Tor works very different than a VPN underneath, with many connections to many servers, not just one tunnel.

If anyone developers can help on this, please get in touch with me.