Add Lokinet

[wrest57]

I believe Lokinet should be added to the "Self-Contained Networks" section.

For those unaware, Lokinet is another network which utilizes onion routing like Tor in order to anonymize traffic. It's developed by many of the same people behind Session, which is already listed on the "Real-Time Communication" section, as the two projects are very closely related. The most notable connection is that the nodes which onion route Session traffic and make up the data storage swarms are the same nodes which power Lokinet. The Session team plans to integrate Lokinet into Session as the onion routing protocol with which to route all messages and voice/video calls in the near future.

The main benefits of Lokinet over Tor are sybil attack resistance and much higher speeds (in part due to being able to carry UDP traffic, as opposed to Tor which is limited to TCP). The main complaint for Lokinet is that the operation of the service nodes is incentivized by the dev team's private PoS cryptocurrency Oxen, which means that there is an initial buy-in cost to run a node. The node operators pay that cost because of the future monetary gains. Whatever criticisms may be laid against this aspect of the network, I do not think there is any evidence that it leads to any compromises in terms of privacy or security.

It would be particularly nice to list on privacyguides because it is available on Windows and Linux, has a GUI, is free as in beer, is FOSS, routes all computer traffic, and is fast (can actually be used for consumer desktop web stuff). It is also not brand new, as it has been usable by the public for years now, and its development is still very active. Therefore I believe it has more than earned its place.

[ph00lt0]

Duplicate: https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/discussions/57
Please check for existing discussions.

[wrest57]

I had read it, but I don't see the relevance. That discussion at privacyguides/privacyguides.org#57 was about adding Session, and any talk of Lokinet was only in relation to such. The following resolution at #192 also has nothing to do with Lokinet, only with the Real-Time Communications page overhaul. Even if it was relevant it was 6 months ago, so I figure it would at least be worth opening the discussion.

[cryptocat8]

I believe this discussion should be continued, as Lokinet seems to have a good potential.

[dngray]

Moving discussion to https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/decentralized-vpns-and-routing-networks/11818