Reference

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4 articles of type reference

What Is Hysteria2?

Hysteria2 is a QUIC-based proxy built for lossy links. What its congestion control, HTTP/3 masquerade and obfuscation buy, and where each one stops.

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Protocols 5 min read updated

What Is REALITY?

REALITY replaces a proxy server's TLS with a real site's handshake, so a prober gets a genuine certificate. How it works, and what it does not solve.

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Protocols 4 min read updated

What Is VLESS?

VLESS is a stateless proxy protocol that does almost nothing on purpose. It hands all encryption to the transport carrying it, which is why it looks like nothing at all.

Protocols 3 min read updated

What Is WireGuard?

WireGuard is a layer-3 tunnel over UDP with a deliberately tiny codebase and a fixed set of cryptographic primitives. Small, fast, auditable, and not built for censorship.