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Obscura
Company blog · obscura.net/blogsecurityweb
Obscura is the company blog at obscura.net, writing about security and web. Since 2025, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Obscura's blog and FAQ for details on how Obscura VPN works, including multihop, QUIC bridges to Mullvad, and its WireGuard-over-QUIC design. Commenters cite these pages for facts rather than judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Privacy first VPN. Two-party relay and no logs. No email needed. Block ads, trackers, malware. Available on iOS, macOS, Android, Windows, and Linux.
Most-linked posts?
- Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2025-02-11
- Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-12
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-26
What Hacker News says?
Give Obscura a try, we get around internet restrictions by using QUIC as transport, which looks like HTTP/3 and doesn't suffer from TCP-over-TCP meltdown: https://obscura.net/ Technical details: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/ Let us know what you think! Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Obscura.
Comment linking /blog/bootstrapping-trust/
on “Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?”Submitted Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise as a story · 225 points
HN discussionSee also Obscura's approach of QUIC bridges to Mullvad as a privacy layer: https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/
Comment linking /blog/bootstrapping-trust/
on “Wireguard FPGA”Submitted Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC as a story · 60 points
HN discussion(Carl from Obscura here) 1) Here's what [one of our FAQ entries]( https://obscura.net/#faq-trust ) say: > 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]( https://mullvad.net/servers ) to ensure that you’re connected via a genuine Mullvad exit hop! 2) I really hope that the VPN industry comes together and…
Comment linking /blog/bootstrapping-trust/
on “Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise”Submitted Cursed Knowledge as a story · 5 points
HN discussion(Carl from Obscura here) Here's what [one of our FAQ entries]( https://obscura.net/#faq-trust ) say: > 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]( https://mullvad.net/servers ) to ensure that you’re connected via a genuine Mullvad exit hop! Let me know if that's unclear!
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on “Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise”Submitted Obscura: the first VPN that can't log your activity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThey addressed that in their FAQ: https://obscura.net/#faq-multihop
Comment linking /
on “Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise”Interesting concept. The blog has a lot more details[1]. One comment/question about the exit nodes. Can someone correct or validate my thoughts: It’s a WireGuard tunnel from the user to Mullvad, so while Obscura can’t see the user traffic, couldn’t the Mullvad exit node see the traffic, and using knowledge of the users WireGuard public key, associate all that users traffic with that key? So even if they can’t associ…
Comment linking /blog/bootstrapping-trust/
on “Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise”It's open source which means I can trust having the app installed if I build from source (or I can just use Wireguard directly). I then know I'm directly connected to a Mullvad Wireguard node by checking the public key here: https://mullvad.net/en/servers Other than Wireguard protocol being broken there is no way for Obscura to snoop presuming I check the public key. I'm not saying I trust Obscura, I'm saying with t…
Comment linking /blog/bootstrapping-trust/
on “UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs”> For example https://obscura.net Obscura .... "Terms and the relationship between you and Obscura shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York" Yeah, erm. Now more than ever, trusting a US jurisdiction VPN provider ? No thanks !
Comment linking /
on “UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs”There are already solutions that do the double VPN thing for you. For example https://obscura.net
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on “UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs”Obscura is WireGuard-over-QUIC, not a new protocol. https://obscura.net/#faq-technical
Comment linking /
on “AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source – meet TrustTunnel”
