Mullvad Partners with Obscura VPN to Offer Two-Party VPN Service with Enhanced Encryption
Published on February 13, 2025
- Mullvad partnered with Obscura VPN to launch a two-party VPN service for enhanced anonymity protocols.
- The partnership announced on February 11 promises of completely securing user data even from the service providers.
- Traffic would be sent encrypted first through Obscura servers and then to Mullvad's WireGuard servers.
Users can now avail another security layer that has been added to VPN browsing data via Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party service. The security feature comes with the news of Sweden-based Mullvad partnering with Obscura VPN.
The apps for macOS were made available on Obscura VPNs website on February 11, 2025, the day the Mullvad announced the partnership started.
VPN users will benefit from dual services of Mullvad’s WireGuard VPN servers and Obscura’s servers. Before the traffic reaches the internet, it will pass through the two-party architecture whereby neither of the VPNs will have access to the user’s identity or internet activities.
Moreover, to ensure complete anonymity, users will be able to verify that their traffic is encrypted while it passes through Mullvad server.
They can check the server’s WireGuard public key on Obscura app’s location page and compare it with those published on Mullvad’s server page.
The VPN service is also accessible via Tor. With Obscura, users will enjoy custom obfuscation which is a protocol based on QUIC that appears like HTTP/3 traffic. This helps the traffic to bypass firewalls and other internet censorship in specific countries and websites.
The Mullvad blog clarified that this two-party VPN service in collaboration with Obscura is separate from Mullvad VPN.
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