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We’ve built the first VPN protocol that breaks all speed barriers (Surfshark)
whynotlearn
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https://surfshark.com/blog/surfshark-launches-a-vpn-protocol
its a proprietary protocol and honestly some aspects of the blog post seems to be Ai generated as well namely
Unlike most VPN protocols, Dausos provides a dedicated tunnel for each user’s traffic. That means your data travels through its own clean, private path — separate from everyone else. No cross-traffic exposure, no interference, no shared overhead.
but that being said, if we take the article as face-value then:
Current VPN protocols weren’t designed for consumers. They were built for different purposes and later adapted for VPN use. That adaptation process introduces inefficiencies and limitations. We started with a clean slate. Our goal was simple: create a protocol that prioritizes what users care about most — security and performance — without compromise.
Dausos uses AEGIS-256X2 encryption, which delivers faster speeds than the industry-standard AES-GCM, especially on modern hardware. It also gives each user a dedicated traffic tunnel, eliminating the overhead and resource waste that’s common in adapted protocols.
The result? Better security, faster connections, and more efficient use of both server and device resources.
Dausos has a rare VPN industry feature — it is fully post-quantum resilient and delivers up to 30% faster speeds compared to other industry-standard protocols. Besides that it also differs in:
Could someone more explained within VPN terminologies help explain what sort of architecture of this supposed protocol could look like if its not vaporware.
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How about speed of light barrier? /a
Im bored by it. Im wondering more what the supposed issue with wireguard and the obvious somewhat needed upgrade, depending on your location, amnezia is.
I do have a lot of clients that use both and they are absolutely not that tech-savvy, yet they had no issue getting it going.
Closed source >>>>TRASH
I dont trust anything from these vpn providers. The justification they gave for their new protocol is not even making me excited. They claim speed increase but my wireguard setup already reaches near 100% speed my isp offers. And post quantum protection is okay, I think when time comes even openvpn and wireguard will implement them aswell.
Physicians are interested in having a meeting with surfshark /s
Though to be fair, there are some really interesting things happening within the speed of information (optic cables) that I am aware of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic-crystal_fiber : from my understanding it is 30% faster than normal optic cable lines.
Japanese Break Bandwidth Record: 450 Tbps On A Single Standard Fibre Pair : https://subseacables.blogspot.com/2026/06/japanese-break-bandwidth-record-450.html
(it took me a lot of time to re-find the second source)
Also there are some experiments happening on calculations happening on light itself rather than bytes. I think its called photonics.
sometimes I wonder what might happen if both 1 and 2 are combined.
This garbage is just a little bit modified Wireguard.
When a provider locks you in with their proprietary software, it's better to avoid them.
you can not break physics no matter how much you try. And you can not achieve 100% optimum speed/transfer in any case. So there is a hard limit which won't be break ever.
Yeah wireguard is amazing. A lower hanging fruit than creating a new protocol like how surfshark has made is probably to use FPGA or hardware optimized wireguard. I was once into the rabbithole of FPGA and it seems to be a perfect use case of it (well combined with Jane street using it for sub millisecond trading and a guy on youtube using FPGA to control robotic hands and machines)
The thing that I am a bit interested upon is the audit.
I actually got so interested to read the PDF that they had linked https://surfshark.com/media/NOR-29-summary.pdf
From the pdf: > To ensure a transparent and collaborative engagement, Surfshark and Cure53 utilized a private, dedicated Slack channel for all communications. This space was open to all participating personnel from both organizations throughout the project
I am unsure how confident I am in reading a audit when it has to write about a private,dedicated Slack channel for all communications...
findings. Of these, seven were classified as security vulnerabilities and three as miscellaneous
issues or best-practice recommendations. It is important to highlight that the most severe
vulnerabilities identified during the audit were localized to the external hosting environment rather
than the Surfshark VPN Dausos protocol or its source code. Consequently, these were categorized
as out-of-scope (OOS) for the core protocol assessment. The remaining eight findings, all of which
were situated within the Dausos protocol’s scope, were rated at Medium severity or lower.
Surfshark team for their excellent project coordination, support, and assistance, both before and
during this assignment.
Not going to lie here, but could someone from the cybersecurity space tell me more about Cure53 because their audit lacked multiple details and it might actually lead to an bad impression on both surfshark and cure53. At the very least to be bigger than 2 pages for what its worth.
So I think what has happened seems to be that surfshark could still say on its website, hey look guys we have been audited and then the audit congrats surfshark and themselves on using a dedicated private slack channel. So private.
I don’t understand why any privacy-conscious person would choose a VPN provider with closed-source clients FFS. There are so many choices out there. How can you trust anything when the client is closed source.
A person who cares about privacy sometimes isn't well aware about how privacy works itself. We can't expect everyone to even know let alone care about wireguard. They just want to know that they are "right" and privacy-friendly. Sometimes they hear from youtubers about how spooky and unsafe the internet is and how VPN helps them and oh how convenient they are sponsored by NordVpn/surfsharkVPN
Though it does seem that there are people who are starting to get the gist of it and the choice of advice has fallen to two companies: ProtonVPN and MullvadVPN and perhaps tangentially IVPN or airvpn I don't think that there is one size fits all and even mentioning these two companies can lead to debate about which one is better or if there is true privacy at all.
And with that swathes of debates. Nothing really ends up happening because either the end user isn't on that forum or he doesn't wish to read 20 pages of debates.
So these companies like Nordvpn/surfsharkvpn basically sell the placebo pill of Privacy especially if they aren't using open source protocols.
To be honest, the placebo business is quite a lucrative one as they would hand any govt data that they might be asking for.
I think that there are only a very few companies if any, but I have heard of one or two which actively fight cases within court for what is essentially a 5$ per month service. I think that the best litmus test is to see which companies fight the cases in courts but those would also be the most unprofitable/unsustainable ones and probably more expensive as well.