Proton VPN Stealth protocol available on desktop

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Proton just released a new version of the vpn client that brings the Stealth protocol available also for Windows, macOS and iOS.

We should update the vpn page.

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Thank you for notifying us!

I will make a PR shortly to reflect this.

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Stealth uses obfuscation to hide your VPN connection from censors. The general idea is to make VPN traffic look like ā€œnormalā€ traffic ā€” or common HTTPS connections. Stealth does this by using obfuscated TLS tunneling over TCP. This is different from most popular VPN protocols that typically use UDP, making them easier to detect and block.

Do I understand correctly? This is an alternative to WireGuard or OpenVPN. In other words, it requires a different client and server.

I couldnā€™t find a GitHub link yet, is it not or not yet open source?

Will other VPN providers be able to offer this as well? It would also be nice to have a client for OpenWrt.

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Windscribe also has stealth protocol

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3 posts were split to a new topic: Status of Windscribeā€™s Split Tunneling

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Itā€™s actually not an entirely new protocol in itself. (source)

Stealth is based on WireGuard tunneled over TLS. It therefore uses the same encryption as WireGuard, with an added layer of TLS encryption. It is otherwise identical to WireGuard (described above).

Some other vpns offer similar stuff, like ExpressVPN, SurfShark, Nord VPN (source).

Protonā€™s implementation seems to work well for Iran and Russia, but not in China

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Done! Let me know what you think.

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Looks good to me :+1: