WeVPN indirectly approached us to "make their users whole" for the time that they had paid for. In the spirit of collaboration, and not further tainting the already murky image of the consumer VPN industry, we decided to comp every WeVPN users with free service for the duration of their remaining subscription.
This is a goodwill gesture only, we're not engaged in any official partnership with WeVPN, and are/were not affiliated with them in any way.
Which isn't bad, but it isn't just goodwill.
Nah no acquisition.
https://discord.com/channels/435955361955053579/435955361955...
However it's being handled though I think the gesture is pretty nice in general. A ton of WeVPN customers were about to lose their money and for some people in restricted countries losing VPN access can be a hell of a blow.
When in Shanghai for example being able to jump across like this would have been pretty handy. As opposed when one that I used went down I had massive issues trying to get back online as other VPNs were being super restricted.
Each to their own.
I recommend just trying it for yourself, there is free service available. Choose Wireguard as the protocol, and try the closest geographic location to you.
However the RSA portion only applies to OpenVPN, and for compatibility reasons. Use WG (our default protocol) if you want modern algos and high throughput.
Why? Because of the concept of "store now decrypt later." It is speculated that entities are mass logging encrypted data of interest now, so that they can decrypt and review it as soon as quantum computers are available.
Great Veritasium video on the topic: https://youtu.be/-UrdExQW0cs
I personally think it is feasible that a quantum computer will exist with enough qubits (the algorithm already exists: Shor's Algorithm) to break all of our current encryption in around 5-10 years.