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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.