I know you should not mix Tor and VPN since it will rather deanonymise than anonymise yourself. However, I was curious how to do VPN over TOR: i.e. Host > TOR > VPN
I stumbled upon this https://privatevpn.com/blog/guides/80/how-to-connect-to-privatevpn's-openvpn-servers-over-tor.
I'd just like to ask you if that is a legitimate way to do it or if it has a downside I am unaware of (besides the ones coming from mixing tor and VPN)
Essenitally what you do is changing the .ovpn VPN config file to:
proto tcp
#rest of the file
socks-proxy 127.0.0.1 9050
route 95.216.33.58 255.255.255.255 192.168.3.1
# using tor as proxy and using the non-VPN standard gateway
to connect to the Entry/Guard node
My routing table now looks like:
tisi@ubuntu:~$ route -n
Kernel-IP-Routentabelle
Ziel Router Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
0.0.0.0 172.18.10.249 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 tun0
116.202.238.106 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 wlan0
127.0.0.1 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 wlan0
172.18.10.1 172.18.10.249 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 tun0
172.18.10.249 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 tun0
192.168.3.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 600 0 0 wlan0
Thanks for your opinion and advice in advance :)