I’m an expert at nothing, but I would imagine that different VPN like WireGuard have different detectable signatures, much like different browsers have different signatures that can be detected. Also, for commercial VPNs, the IPs that the VPN company uses are easily identifiable.
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Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m new to all this, how is wireguard banned and enforced? Seems odd
irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
WG is not meant to be a stealthy protocol and is easy to detect at the ISP level. It has distinct characteristics that packet inspection tools can use to identify it by examining the traffic and block or flag it.
There are modified versions like AmneziaWG that make it stealthier, or alternative protocols built to evade traffic inspection like xray or sing-box. It’s a bit of an arms race for packet inspection tools to be able to reliably identify these intentionally stealthy protocols, but the advantage is generally strongly in your favor.