Obscura is a new VPN that claims it cannot log your activity. It is now available on Linux. Obscura is designed to outsmart internet censorship and uses WireGuard VPNs. Traditional VPNs, even "no-log" ones, can track you because they see both who you are and what you do. Obscura is built so it cannot see your traffic in the first place.

Obscura only sees your IP address and never your browsing history. It uses a two-party protocol: Obscura's servers relay your connection to exit servers (run by Mullvad) but can never decrypt your traffic. Exit hops never see who you are. Obscura masks your real IP address when relaying.

You log in with a randomized account number. No names, emails, or phone numbers are required. Credit card info is not required. You can pay with Bitcoin's Lightning Network or Monero.

Obscura avoids detection by blending in with regular internet traffic. The team includes experts who have served on the Nix RFC Steering Committee, implemented the 64bit random number generator for Go, fixed critical vulnerabilities for hardware security tokens, won bounties for Monero bugs, and contributed to Bitcoin for reproducible builds.