Obscura VPN Is Now Available on macOS
Obscura is the first provably private VPN that can't log your network activity by design and outsmarts network filters for enhanced censorship resistance. It is currently available on macOS, with support for other platforms coming sometime soon.
- "Today is the day: Obscura VPN is NOW AVAILABLE!" announced Carl Dong.
- Obscura is designed to never see user traffic, making tracking impossible. It blends with regular internet traffic to avoid network filters, ensuring unrestricted access.
- Obscura’s servers relay the WireGuard tunnel between a user's device and Mullvad’s servers to protect user information. This setup ensures:
- Obscura’s servers can't decrypt WireGuard packets as they are encrypted with Mullvad server's WireGuard public key.
- Mullvad’s servers can't see the user's connecting IP because Obscura’s servers perform NAT.
- A user's device connects to Obscura’s servers over QUIC, making the connections harder to detect or block, as they resemble regular internet traffic through HTTP/3, which uses QUIC for transport. Furthermore, Obscura avoids the TCP-over-TCP meltdown problem by using QUIC's unreliable datagram extension. This makes it a suitable option for bypassing firewalls and internet censorship.
"Obscura users can verify that their traffic is sent encrypted to a Mullvad server by comparing their server’s WireGuard public key (shown on the Obscura App’s “Location” page) against those published on our server page," said Mullvad VPN in a blog post.
- At launch, Obscura VPN is just $6/month. Users can pay via the Lightning Network, and the service does not require emails for authentication. Check it out here.
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