Active probing

3 articles in the Atlas on active probing - What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?; Why Maronix Uses VLESS + REALITY. Censorship resistance is a property of six layers…

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Censorship & DPI 12 min read updated

What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?

Censorship resistance is a property of six layers, from the bytes on the wire to the cloud provider, the CDN, and the response to a probe. Protocol is one of them.

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Guides 7 min read updated

Why Maronix Uses VLESS + REALITY

VLESS brings no encryption of its own and REALITY borrows a real site's handshake. Why Maronix pairs them, what each contributes, and what stays exposed.

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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.