Faster and further reaching — NordVPN quietly brings its obfuscated servers to its in-house censorship-resistant…
- NordVPN moved obfuscation from OpenVPN to the NordWhisper protocol
- The move promises faster connections and a wider range of locations
- The change is already live on iOS, with the rest of the apps set to follow soon
Keeping ahead of network filters is now a permanent job for any provider hoping to rank among the best VPN services, and NordVPN has just made a change that shows how quickly the ground is shifting.
Tucked away in the release notes of a fresh iOS app update, the provider has revealed that its obfuscated servers no longer run on OpenVPN. Instead, they are now powered by NordWhisper, the censorship-resistant protocol NordVPN built in-house and launched at the start of 2025.
The reason for the change, according to NordVPN, is simple: better speed and more places to connect from.
Marijus Briedis, CTO at NordVPN, also told TechRadar that NordWhisper is designed...
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