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What is Amnezia VPN

Amnezia VPN is a project developed by Russian internet activists, focused on finding solutions to combat state censorship. It is a free, open-source application that allows users to setup personal VPNs on their own servers using protocols like WireGuard, OpenVPN, and Shadowsocks. Created with the goal of bypassing censorship, Amnezia effectively undermines Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) by obfuscating traffic, making it harder for DPI systems to detect or block VPN usage. Amnezia is effective even in heavily restricted countries such as Russia, China and Iran.

Amnezia WG VPN (AmneziaWG) is particularly designed to function in the harshest internet climates, where conventional VPNs, may struggle.

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What is AmneziaWG VPN?

AmneziaWG VPN specifically refers to the WireGuard protocol implementation in Amnezia. Amnezia introduced AmneziaWG, an enhanced version of WireGuard designed for use in the most restrictive internet environments. AmneziaWG is optimized for environments with extreme censorship and can bypass sophisticated blocking mechanisms better than a standard WireGuard installation.

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How to install AmneziaWG VPN on a VPS

  1. Install Ubuntu 22.04 on your EDIS Global VPS. VPS in Estonia work great from and to Russia, VPS in Amsterdam work well in Iran, but any other VPS location will do a great job as well.

  2. Connect to the VPS server using SSH protocol:

ssh root@VPS_IP_address
Enter root password:
  1. Change sources.list, execute the following commands:
cp -f /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup

sed "s/# deb-src/deb-src/" /etc/apt/sources.list.backup > /etc/apt/sources.list

apt update -y && apt upgrade -y
  1. Allowing traffic routing for the AWG driver:
echo "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1" > /etc/sysctl.d/00-amnezia.conf
  1. Reboot your system:
reboot
  1. Create a new directory
mkdir -p ~/awg && cd ~/awg
  1. Install AmneziaWG packages:
add-apt-repository -y ppa:amnezia/ppa

apt install -y amneziawg
  1. Check the availability of all necessary drivers in the system:
root@user:~/awg# lsmod | grep amnezia
amneziawg              98304  0
curve25519_x86_64      36864  2 amneziawg,wireguard
libchacha20poly1305    16384  2 amneziawg,wireguard
libcurve25519_generic  49152  3 amneziawg,curve25519_x86_64,wireguard
ip6_udp_tunnel         16384  2 amneziawg,wireguard
udp_tunnel             20480  2 amneziawg,wireguard
  1. If the last command does not work and doesn’t show anything try to use this command:
modprobe amneziawg && lsmod | grep amnezia
  1. Install new utilities:
apt install curl wget python3 python3-pip

pip3 install qrcode
  1. Download script in folder awg:
cd ~/awg
wget -O awgcfg.py https://gist.githubusercontent.com/remittor/8c3d9ff293b2ba4b13c367cc1a69f9eb/raw/awgcfg.py
  1. Generating the main AWG config:
#Change the subnet=10.9.9.1 and UDP port=49666 if you need to.
python3 awgcfg.py --make /etc/amnezia/amneziawg/awg0.conf -i 10.10.8.1/24 -p 42666
  1. Generate a config template that will be used to create client configs and QR codes:
python3 awgcfg.py --create
  1. Add new clients in the main config:
#For first client
python3 awgcfg.py -a "my_amneziawg_client1"

#For second client
python3 awgcfg.py -a "my_amneziawg_client2"
  1. Generate client configs:
python3 awgcfg.py -c -q
  1. UP the AWG tunnel interface:
#Add amneziawg to autorun:
systemctl enable --now awg-quick@awg0
#Restart of service:
systemctl restart awg-quick@awg0.service
#Check status of service:
systemctl status awg-quick@awg0.service

#If everything work correctly you get this:
vps systemd[1]: awg-quick@awg0.service: Deactivated successfully.
vps systemd[1]: Stopped WireGuard via wg-quick(8) for awg0.
vps systemd[1]: Starting WireGuard via wg-quick(8) for awg0...
vps awg-quick[8284]: [#] ip link add awg0 type amneziawg
vps awg-quick[8284]: [#] awg setconf awg0 /dev/fd/63
vps awg-quick[8284]: [#] ip -4 address add 10.10.8.1/24 dev awg0
vps awg-quick[8284]: [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev awg0
vps awg-quick[8284]: [#] iptables -A INPUT -p udp --dport 42666 -m con>
vps systemd[1]: Finished WireGuard via wg-quick(8) for awg0.
  1. Check status AWG:
awg show

You can copy these awg configs (my_amneziawg_client1, my_amneziawg_client2) to your client machine and connect to amnesia wg:

Links:

Ameziawg guides:

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