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As is explained at impressive (if slightly tedious) length in its documentation, the core idea behind CryptoStorm is to build a VPN system that de-couples payment from access to the VPN, so that CryptoStorm (the VPN provider) does not know who you are. Now if done carefully, then paying for a VPN service using Bitcoins can already provide a high degree of anonymity (although a VPN provider will always be able to ‘see’ its users’ true IP addresses if it so chooses, and CryptoStorm is no exception), but this token based system does offer an additional level of obfuscation to the payment process (and the token can themselves be paid for using Bitcoins)

The system basically allows you to buy ‘tokens’ that authorise you to use the service for a certain amount of time. These token can be bought either directly from CryptoStorm or, once the service is fully up and running, from third party vendors (thus putting greater distance between yourself and CryptoStorm).

Critical to this process is how easily these tokens can be traced back to you as an individual. CryptoStorm claims to keep no records of token sales, although it cannot of course speak for third party sellers. It sees these tokens being used much like Bitcoins, traded, resold, anonymised etc. according to market forces. Much as with Bitcoins, you get to decide how much effort and risk you are willing to put into ensuring your anonymity.

We think this is an ingenious idea, and because tokens do not identify individuals and are purely ‘one way’ (i.e. they only allow access to the VPN service, not any access to or information about the user)), even if some form of Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack were to occur, the only thing that would happen is that someone could to use the CryptoStorm VPN service for free. No user accounts would be compromised (as there aren’t any).

As we noted, CryptoStorm explains the idea at great length on its website forum, including answering most questions (also at length) that we can think of, so if you are interested then it’s probably worth popping over for a look

https://cryptostorm.is/pricing-three-columns.html

Edited July 5, 2014 by www

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