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5 articles in the Atlas on vpn protocols - What Is Hysteria2?; What Makes a VPN Resistant to Censorship?. Hysteria2 is a QUIC-based proxy built for lossy links. What its…

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Hysteria logo, written with a stylized H letter design formed by two lightning bolts
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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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Scene of the movie V for Vendetta, the hero V appears in front of a poster of the slogan of the totalitarian government.
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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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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.

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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.

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Wireguard logo: red background with a white coiled dragon
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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.

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