Swedish virtual private network company Mullvad VPN is adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship, the company said in a blog post earlier this month.

WireGuard is an industry-standard VPN protocol that's both lightweight and effective, using strong cryptography while also being speedy. QUIC obfuscation is a technique that disguises online usage as regular HTTP/3 web traffic, making detection more difficult, since HTTP is seen as normal internet usage.

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"HTTP is generally not blocked by state-level censors, since much of the internet would be unreachable without it," Mullvad's blog post said.

A representative for Mullvad didn'

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