Proton Technologies introduces advanced anti-censorship features

If you've ever used or known tools like ProtonMail or ProtonVPN, it's probably no stranger to Proton Technologies. This Geneva-based online service company has recently launched a new anti-censorship feature that can allow internet users to access the services and websites they want right away. even if those websites have been blocked by the government, network service providers, or system administrators. In other words, this feature can ensure users anywhere in the world can access secure encrypted encrypted VPN and email services.

Proton Technologies' new anti-censorship feature can bypass censorship by routing connections to its servers through third-party infrastructure (which may include Google), and will be cumulative. built into Proton mobile and desktop apps (such as ProtonMail), as a separate optional installation for the next few weeks.

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While relying heavily on the performance of this new anti-censorship feature, Proton engineers also recommend users that the connection's success rate is not always high, but will be improve over time. At default settings, applications will not use alternate routing to connect users to Proton servers, and are used only when a connection problem is reported.

According to Proton Technologies, the reason for the new increase is not integrated by default but will only appear as an option because there are still some disadvantages:

'We also had to customize TLS encryption to implement alternate routing. TLS is the encryption protocol used in HTTPS and it depends on the certificate authority to authenticate the server. The moderator will request this information to identify the target, so we will use the public key instead. This provides equally strong encryption but can be problematic if our server is compromised. '

Anti-censorship measures will be released by Proton Technologies in the future and any new updates will be shared publicly.

Proton Technologies, founded in 2014, is a group of 'scientists, engineers and developers who share a deep interest in the future of the Internet. They are also experts in Internet security technology, eager to apply their expertise for the benefit of the community, and to share the mission of protecting civil liberties in the online world '.