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Obscura: A VPN Built for True Privacy

2025-02-20

Carl Dong and his team of privacy experts introduce Obscura, a VPN designed to address the gap between promised and delivered privacy in existing VPN services. The team boasts a strong track record, including contributions to the Nix project, the Go standard library, hardware security token vulnerability fixes, and cryptocurrency security audits. Obscura focuses on delivering architecture-level privacy, not just promises, aiming to make secure and reliable internet access available to everyone.

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Obscura: A Next-Gen VPN Using 2-Party Relays and QUIC

2025-02-11

Existing consumer VPNs suffer from significant trust and privacy issues, as VPN providers act as a man-in-the-middle, seeing both user personal info and browsing history. Obscura VPN solves this by using a 2-party relay architecture and a QUIC-based VPN protocol. The 2-party relay separates "who you are" from "what you do," ensuring that even if one relay is compromised, not all user information is leaked. QUIC disguises VPN traffic as HTTP/3 traffic, bypassing network filters and avoiding the performance degradation of TCP over TCP. Obscura partners with Mullvad as its exit node and open-sources its app's entire source code, aiming for an open and private internet.

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