Mozilla VPN 2021 review: What is the VPN of the Mozilla Foundation worth?
Mozilla has a big story with Internet security and it was therefore normal that we are waiting for them at the turn of this aspect of their new service.Mozilla VPN aligns with competition and uses the solid AES-256 encryption protocol, standard on the market for a few years.As a reminder, this technology generates 256 -bit keys that allow you to hide the original IP address, mix traffic with that of other users, and encrypt communications between VPN servers and computer.The servers let's talk about it!They do not use volatile memory like ExpressVPN or Surfshark, but this may have to change in the future according to the investments of Mullvad and Mozilla in the infrastructure.
Mozilla VPN chooses to use only a protocol, namely Wireguard, to ensure a secure and rapid connection between the application and the server.As a reminder, Wireguard is a very light open-source protocol since it only has 3800 lines of code (against 400,000 lines for the IPSEC protocol).Its lightness therefore allows it to offer better performance but above all greater safety, fewer cod lines resulting in less exploitable flaws and simpler audits.The service was also one of the first to adopt it when it was launched in 2020 (Mullvad has used it since 2017) but a good part of the market has since integrated the protocol in one way or another.
Finally, the service offers by default the use of dynamic IP.You will therefore change IP with each new connection, which is always preferable to a static IP.
Like Firefox, the customer of Mozilla VPN is open-source and the code can be consulted and audited on Github.Mozilla even offers a guide to compile the customer.
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