15 posts
WireGuard and OpenVPN are blocked by Iran's filtering infrastructure. VLESS Reality is the protocol that survives. Here is how it works and who ships it.
VPN blocks were reported in Pakistan from December 2025, and carriers are reported to pattern-match VLESS, Shadowsocks, and WireGuard. What still works.
BTK throttles WireGuard and OpenVPN handshakes, X gets blocked during elections, and Wikipedia stayed dark for three years. Here is what works.
WireGuard, OpenVPN, and basic Shadowsocks are all detected by the GFW in 2026. The protocols that survive are VLESS Reality with Vision and NaiveProxy.
VLESS Reality vs Shadowsocks AEAD vs Trojan-GFW vs Hysteria 2 vs NaiveProxy vs TUIC. Which protocol survives DPI in Russia, China, Iran in 2026, and why.
TSPU blocks WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, plain VLESS, and Shadowsocks. What TSPU does technically, why VLESS Reality with Vision survives, and what is next.
VLESS Reality forwards a real TLS certificate from a public site, so DPI sees ordinary HTTPS. How it works and how it compares to other protocols.
Vietnam blocked Telegram on June 2, 2025 under Decree 53. The block has held into 2026. Here is what changed and how to get Telegram back in minutes.
OpenVPN and WireGuard are easy to fingerprint. How the protocols that matter compare against state-level DPI in 2026, what research shows, and what nobody has measured.
Shadowsocks made censorship circumvention mainstream. But China learned to detect encrypted random noise. VLESS Reality takes a different approach: look like normal HTTPS, not like nothing.
DPI systems inspect your traffic payloads, not just headers. Here's how DPI works, which protocols it catches, and which ones survive.
WireGuard is fast and simple. VLESS Reality is invisible to censors. Both are good protocols for different situations. Here's when to use which.
What Xray-core is, how its protocols, transports and REALITY fit together, and how it compares with NaiveProxy. Sourced from Xray's docs and censorship research.
VLESS is a lightweight proxy protocol from the XRay ecosystem that delegates encryption to TLS, eliminating double-encryption overhead. Here's how it works and why it matters for VPN users in censored countries.
WireGuard is fast, but it's trivially detectable by DPI. VLESS with Reality makes your VPN traffic indistinguishable from visiting microsoft.com. Here's how it works and why it matters.
