Encryption

3 articles in the Atlas on encryption - Obfuscation vs Encryption; What Is a VPN Protocol?. Encryption hides what you said. Obfuscation hides that you said it. Two…

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Censorship & DPI 11 min read updated

Obfuscation vs Encryption

Encryption hides what you said. Obfuscation hides that you said it. Two independent axes with different failure modes, and most protocols carry only one.

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Protocols 5 min read updated

What Is a VPN Protocol?

A VPN protocol is a specification for a tunnel. Here is what the main ones actually decide, how they differ, and why the choice is a censorship question.

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.