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Privacy that’s more than a promise
Meet Obscura: the first VPN that
can’t
log your activity
and
outsmarts internet censorship.
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VPNs know more about you than they should. So we made one that doesn’t.
Even “no-log” VPNs can track you, since they see both who you are and
what you do. Obscura is built such that we can’t see your
traffic in the first place.
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We can’t leak what we don’t have.
Logs? Not possible.
Obscura VPN doesn’t log your IP address
and
can’t see your internet traffic, ever. It’s impossible
by design.

Emails? Not necessary.
Log in with just a randomized account number. No names,
no emails, no phone numbers necessary.

Credit card info? Not required.
Easily pay using Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for better privacy,
instant payments, and lower transaction fees. We also accept Monero.
More than Privacy
Outsmart Internet Restrictions
By blending in with regular internet traffic, Obscura avoids being
detected by network filters – keeping your internet access unrestricted.
More details.
How it Works
Private by Design: Our Two-Party VPN Protocol
By using a fully-independent exit hop, Obscura keeps who you are and
what you do separate. More technical details here.
Obscura never sees your trafficObscura’s servers relay your connection to exit servers but can never decrypt your traffic.Your traffic is always end-to-end encrypted via WireGuard® to the exit server.Exit hops never see who you areExit servers (run by Mullvad) connect you to the internet but never see your personal info.Obscura masks your real IP address when relaying to the exit server. FAQs Questions?We’re here to help.
Here are the most common questions we’re asked, but if we haven’t
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What makes Obscura different from existing VPNs? Unlike VPNs with a “no-logs” policy, Obscura is provably private by design.
Even “no-logs” VPNs see both your identity and your internet activity, meaning you have to blindly trust their pinky-promise for privacy. This is exactly why some privacy-conscious folks will tell you not to use a VPN at all.
Obscura is different – we never see your decrypted internet packets. It’s simply impossible for us to log your internet activity, even if we were compelled to, or if our servers were compromised. You can even verify this yourself.
Obscura’s stealth protocol is much harder to block.
Our unique stealth protocol is designed to blend in with regular internet traffic. It does so by leveraging QUIC – the same technology that powers HTTP/3 – making it far harder for censors or network filters to detect or block.
Want more technical details? See here. What user data can Obscura see? Obscura only sees your connecting IP address and necessary payment info – never your actual internet traffic.
We physically can’t decrypt your internet traffic (see how) and never log your connecting IP address.
For even more privacy, we actively support privacy-friendly payment methods like Bitcoin over Lightning and Monero. Learn more about accepted payment methods here. How do I know Obscura does what it claims? I like the way you think! 😎
Don’t trust — verify. Our app’s entire source code is on GitHub for you to verify that we do what we say.
We also plan to provide reproducible builds of our app, meaning anyone can confirm that the app you download matches the code we publish.
Additionally, our app displays your current exit hop’s WireGuard public key on its “Location” page. You can check this key against what Mullvad publishes here to ensure that you’re connected via a genuine Mullvad exit hop! How much does Obscura cost, what payment methods are accepted? Obscura is just $8/month.
You can top-up your account using:

Credit Card (via Stripe)
Bitcoin over Lightning (for more privacy)
Monero (for more privacy)

For convenient renewals, you can also subscribe with your Credit Card (via Stripe). Note that Stripe may need your email for subscriptions, but Obscura never stores it. How many devices can I use Obscura on? Each Obscura account has 5 simultaneous connection slots. This is different from ”5 devices”.
If you’re connecting with our Obscura app…

You can log in on as many devices as you’d like.
A device only uses 1 slot while it is actively connected (see the “Connection” tab in the app).

If you’re connecting with our WireGuard configs…

Each config reserves 1 slot as long as it exists on your account, even when the device is not connected.
To free a slot, delete the config from your account here.

Examples

Only using our Obscura app: Unlimited sign-ins; up to 5 devices connected at the same time.
Only using WireGuard configs: You can keep up to 5 configs total (i.e., 5 devices).
A Mix: If you have 1 WireGuard config on your account, it uses 1 of 5 slots, leaving 4 slots open for the Obscura app to connect from any signed-in devices.
How does Obscura differ from my VPN’s multihop option? With a typical multihop VPN, the same provider controls every hop—so they can still link your identity to your traffic.
Obscura solves this by using a fully-independent exit hop (currently Mullvad). Ensuring that our servers never see your actual traffic, and the exit hop never sees your identity. How does Obscura compare to Tor? We have immense respect for the Tor project (and encourage you to support it), but its volunteer-run network can be slow and susceptible to DDoS issues, making it infeasible for everyday use.
Obscura uses two dedicated, high-performance hops for maximum speed and reliability – meaning you get many of Tor’s privacy benefits without sacrificing everyday usability. What server locations are available? We’re always working to add more exit locations. We currently have the following:
North America

Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦

United States 🇺🇸

Ashburn, VA
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
New York, NY
San Jose, CA
Seattle, WA

Latin America

São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
Bogotá, Colombia 🇨🇴
Querétaro, Mexico 🇲🇽

Europe

Prague, Czech Republic 🇨🇿
Paris, France 🇫🇷
Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
Milan, Italy 🇮🇹
Palermo, Italy 🇮🇹
Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱
Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭
Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦
London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Asia

Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Singapore 🇸🇬
Istanbul, Turkey 🇹🇷

Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦

Oceania

Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
What relay servers does Obscura offer? We will continue to add more relay (first-hop) servers to Obscura. Currently we have the following:
North America
United States 🇺🇸

Atlanta, GA
Chicago, IL
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
New York, NY
San Jose, CA
Seattle, WA
Washington D.C.

Latin America

Querétaro, Mexico 🇲🇽
Santiago, Chile 🇨🇱
São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷

Europe

Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
London, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Madrid, Spain 🇪🇸
Stockholm, Sweden 🇸🇪
Warsaw, Poland 🇵🇱

Asia

Hong Kong 🇭🇰
Osaka, Japan 🇯🇵
Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵
Singapore 🇸🇬

Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦

Oceania

Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺
Perth, Australia 🇦🇺
Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
How does the macOS app work? Does it have kernel-level access? Our macOS app installs a Network Extension, which is a fully
sandboxed process with no kernel-level access to your system.
You can verify this by looking at our source code. Give me the technical details! Obscura’s servers relay the WireGuard tunnel between your device and Mullvad’s servers. Essentially, WireGuard-over-QUIC.
This looks something like:
<user> --> Obscura Server --> Mullvad Server --> <internet>
This ensures that no single party has the information to leak or correlate your traffic and your identity, since:

Obscura’s servers are unable to decrypt the WireGuard packets it relays, since they are encrypted to a Mullvad server’s WireGuard pubkey.
Mullvad’s servers never see your connecting IP since Obscura’s servers are effectively doing NAT.

Your device connects to Obscura’s servers over QUIC, meaning:

Obscura connections are harder to detect or block since they look like regular internet traffic (HTTP/3 uses QUIC for transport).
Obscura avoids the TCP-over-TCP meltdown problem since we use QUIC’s unreliable datagram extension.

Still curious? Read our blog post on Obscura’s design. Can I generate a WireGuard configuration to use Obscura? Yes you can! Obscura’s WireGuard compatibility mode generates configurations that work on any WireGuard-compatible platforms, including:

iOS
Android
Windows
Linux
Various router OSes

To get started:

Download the WireGuard app for your platform here
Generate a WireGuard configuration for your account here
Add the generated WireGuard configuration to your WireGuard app (or scan the QR code)
Connect 🎉

For a more in-depth guide, see our Using Obscura via WireGuard article.
Note that since this uses the original WireGuard protocol, you won’t benefit from Obscura’s QUIC-based obfuscation for outsmarting internet censorship. However, your connection still benefits from improved privacy with our Two-Party Relay architecture. How do I download Obscura? Download Obscura for iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, or Linux from the platform’s download page.
For Windows, choose the x64 installer for most computers or the ARM64 installer for a Windows on ARM device.
For Linux, choose your distribution to see its requirements and terminal installation commands. Packages are available for x64 computers.
If we don’t have a native app for your platform yet, you can still use Obscura with a WireGuard configuration. I’m Carl, head-janitor of Obscura 👋
Thanks for reaching the bottom — not everyone makes it.
I’m incredibly lucky to have the help of a crack(ed) team of privacy optimists to build Obscura.
Among us, we’ve served on the Nix RFC Steering Committee, implemented the 64bit random number generator for the Go standard library, fixed critical vulnerabilities for hardware security tokens, won bounties for Monero bugs, and contributed to Bitcoin for reproducible builds.
But while privacy and digital sovereignty in some worlds has made leaps and bounds, VPNs have been left behind; peddling privacy based on promises instead of privacy baked into the architecture.
So we’re taking our skills to build Obscura: a VPN you can depend on to get the most out of our glorious digital commons – the internet. It’s the VPN we’ve always wanted to use, and it’s the kind of privacy we believe everyone should have access to.
Thanks for reading – ping me at carl@obscura.net for any questions, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄
Cheers,
Carl Dong
I fight for the users.
Our team learning laser-cutting at the NYC Resistor hackerspace

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“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come
together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take
place.”

— Eric Hughes,

A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto (1993)
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Obscura positions itself as a Virtual Private Network designed to provide privacy through architectural design, aiming to surpass the limitations of traditional VPNs that rely solely on non-logging policies. Unlike conventional VPNs, which track both user identity and browsing history, Obscura is engineered to prevent the logging of user activity by ensuring that the service cannot see the user's traffic in the first place. This foundational difference stems from Obscura’s commitment to privacy by design, which is achieved through a unique two-party VPN protocol utilizing a fully independent exit hop, currently implemented via Mullvad servers. This architecture ensures a separation between the user's identity and their internet activity, making logging of internet traffic impossible, even if the servers were compromised or compelled to log data.

The operational mechanism of Obscura is sophisticated, involving the relay of the WireGuard tunnel between the user's device and the exit server, employing a configuration based on WireGuard over QUIC. Obscura’s servers act in a relay capacity, connecting to exit servers without ever decrypting the user’s traffic, as the data remains end-to-end encrypted to the exit server via the WireGuard protocol. Furthermore, the exit servers process the connection without accessing the user's personal information, effectively masking the actual IP address when relaying the connection. This process ensures that Obscura servers cannot access or correlate the user's identity with their specific internet traffic. The use of QUIC, the transport layer technology behind HTTP/3, provides an additional layer of stealth, enabling Obscura to blend in with regular internet traffic and making the service significantly more resistant to detection and blocking by network filters or censors.

Obscura addresses privacy concerns across various aspects of digital interaction. For identity management, the system avoids storing names, email addresses, or phone numbers, instead utilizing randomized account numbers for login, further enhancing anonymity. Payment methods are also designed for privacy, accepting alternatives such as Bitcoin over the Lightning Network and Monero, alongside standard credit cards processed via Stripe. Transparency and verifiable trust are paramount; the entire source code for Obscura is publicly available on GitHub, allowing users to verify the implementation of the stated privacy guarantees, and the application displays the public key of the current exit hop, which can be cross-referenced with public information to confirm the legitimacy of the connection.

In terms of network performance and flexibility, Obscura employs two dedicated, high-performance hops, which provides a balance between achieving superior privacy and maintaining everyday usability, positioning it as a faster and more reliable alternative to networks like Tor for general use. The platform is available across multiple operating systems, including iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux, and offers flexibility in connection management. Account holders are allotted five simultaneous connection slots, with specific rules governing how these slots are utilized whether connecting via the Obscura application or through generated WireGuard configurations.

The available server locations span North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Oceania, providing a wide geographical distribution for users. Relay servers are also established across these regions, further enhancing the connectivity options. The system's design specifically mitigates the risks associated with multi-hop VPNs, where a single provider controls all intermediate hops and can link identity to traffic. By employing an independent exit hop, Obscura ensures that the exit point does not possess the necessary information to correlate the user's identity with the data flowing through the connection. This approach emphasizes that internet freedom begins with building systems that allow anonymous transactions, as suggested by Eric Hughes.