Nym’s zero-knowledge network: No logging promises needed

Turning a VPN no log’s policy into a network design and guarantee

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What is Nym’s no log’s policy? Actually, Nym has something much better than a “policy”: it provides a zero-knowledge network in which users don’t have to place their trust in anyone. Privacy and anonymity for everyone is ensured by the design for the Nym network itself. Nym doesn’t and can’t know anything about what you do!

This is because the network is designed in a decentralized way so that there is no point which has access to information connecting you personally to your traffic or its destination, and Nym Technologies has access to none of it. There is, in short, no single point of failure. Communicate online through a network that is anonymous all the way down, even to the link between payments to network use!

What is a VPN’s no logs policy?

No log’s policies have become a standard mark for whether a VPN is trustworthy or not – and many aren’t! A no log’s policy essentially promises users that their personal data will not be recorded or “logged” by the VPN company. Keeping traffic records of user activity is unfortunately a common business model of many disreputable VPNs which earn a revenue by selling metadata to third parties.

This is where the problem lies: VPNs need to promise privacy-preserving conduct because they can, in principle, keep full traffic logs of what users do through their VPN servers. VPNs that promise not to keep traffic logs have been shown, after cooperation with authorities, to actually have been keeping logs all along!

While no log’s policies are a move in the right direction, they are ultimately inadequate: users must trust the VPN company won’t mishandle their data, and in the end they will never know. NymVPN is fundamentally different: no promises are required with the guarantee of a private network design.

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