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What VPN Protocols does PrivadoVPN utilize?
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OpenVPN

We utilize OpenVPN. OpenVPN is an open source tunneling protocol. OpenVPN uses SSL/TLS to handle its key exchange and set up its control channel, and a unique OpenVPN protocol to handle encapsulation and the data channel. This is much better compared to VPN protocols that rely on the IPSec suite. This means that both its data channel and control channel are encrypted, which makes it somewhat unique compared to other VPN protocols. OpenVPN is supported on almost all major operating systems.

 

IKEv2

IKEv2(Internet Key Exchange version 2) is a tunneling protocol that is paired with IPSec for VPN usage. The benefits of IKEv2 are stability, security and speed.  Support for mobility and multihoming (MOBIKE) makes IKEv2 particularly beneficial for VPN connections on mobile VPN connections moving from cell tower to tower, and across WiFi networks.

 

WireGuard®

WireGuard® is a reasonably new, but thoroughly tested, protocol that balances the speed and security concerns of OpenVPN and IKEv2. It is incredibly strong encryption that still manages to work incredibly quickly because of the innovative way it was developed. This works great on all types of connection and is especially good on public WiFi and other mobile networks.

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