how's it going everybody welcome back today we're going to be talking about the security of both
nord vpn and surf shark so before we begin if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll
find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews if
you'd like to learn more about these vpns okay so getting straight into the security and features of
starting with nordvpn now nord boasts quite a few security features including these protocols
of course for the most part you want to go for the fastest protocol security will come with openvpn
nord links will offer you both security and well definitely superior speed of course nordvpn boasts
the standard 256-bit encryption with a 40 96 bit dh key and a host of other basic features such as
split tunneling the kill switch not only the conventional kill switch but also an amp kill
switch which will allow you to close selected apps when you disconnect from the vpn rather
than disconnecting your entire connection as it is with the a conventional kill switch which
will of course disable your internet when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly if you didn't know what
split tiling is split tiling will let you choose which applications are routed through the vpn and
which are not you also get four types of dedicated servers here specialty servers uh onion or vpn
and peer-to-peer and when you're looking for extra security you definitely want to switch to
openvpn which will give you access to dedicated ip and double vpn most notably that double vpn
will give you uh the ability to route your connection through two servers rather than
one for double the encryption you also have an ad blocker right here if you go to general dns leak
protection custom dns in advance which will give you the ability to change your dns very easily
and of course obfuscated servers will give you superior obfuscation if you're in censorship heavy
countries though for the most part using regular servers will suffice and when tested for leaks
nordvpn proved to not give any kind of information related to my relocation so no dns or ip leaks
nordvpn of course has over 5100 servers in 60 countries it works with many devices including
gaming consoles smart tvs and many other devices nearly every single modern device you can think
of really and with regards to security obviously it's amongst the best in the industry it allowed
to secure up to six devices per subscription now as for surf shark security features surfshark also
uses the aes 256 bit encryption uh but with the rsa 2048 uh bitkey rather than the 40 96 bit key
now both of which of course that doesn't mean that surf shark is not secure it's just that
on paper nor the vpn is a little bit more secure in addition to perfect forward secrecy which if
you're not familiar with the term it is when a piece of an encryption system automatically and
frequently changes the keys it uses to encrypt and decrypt information such that if the latest key is
compromised it exposes only a small portion of the user's sensitive data which makes decrypting
your sessions while you're connected to the vpn extra difficult and even if let's say a hacker
was able to decrypt one of your sessions all they're going to get is roughly 60 minutes of
information and not more uh and if they wanted to unblock more sessions or hack more sessions
they will have to get access to the keys that are constantly being generated so this makes it great
for privacy of course dns and ip leak blocking you also have a kill switch right here a kill switch
and white listener which is the same as split tiling and an ad blocker which makes it great for
well general ad blocking it's not the best ad blocker neither is nordvpns but they'll they'll
they'll do the uh basic job to say the least no borders mode will allow you to bypass the uh great
firewall of china if you're in china it'll just increase the obfuscation and you have a handful
of protocols here including the best performing uh protocol the wireguard protocol definitely use
that at all times however you do have an option here that is not available in nordvpn which will
be the shadowsox protocol which will help you reach banned websites if you're in censorship
heavy countries however be wary this will only secure your browser traffic and your non-browser
traffic will not be secured at all and again no data leaks were detected in the dns leak test that
i made for surf shark of course definitely check the reviews below for more information on that
and just like nordvpn you do get two types of specialty servers both dedicated ip and double vpn
named as a multi-hop and static ip in surf shark so uh yeah they serve the same purpose as the ones
in north vpn multi-hop will of course write your connection through two servers rather than one and
static ip will give you servers with static ips so each one of these servers will have unique ips and
they will remain the same every time you return to them and perhaps the most attractive feature
of all surfshark will allow users to secure an unlimited number of devices without having to use
a router because generally if you wanted to secure an unlimited number of devices with just one
subscription or in a vpn you'll need to install the vpn on a router and everything connected to
that router will be of course secured by the vpn as a result however with surf shark they just give
you the ability to secure an unlimited number of devices with just one subscription without having
to use a router so you are able to share it with as many friends and family as you would like and
as of july 2020 surf shark began to operate on a completely diskless ram only server network which
is a big improvement for security and privacy what that means is that data is erased with every
machine reboot and that there's no physical drive in which data is stored in unfortunately nordvpn
are still making that transition so they still have some work to do with regards to making the
full transition from uh hard drive servers to ram disk based servers surfshark can operate of course
on many devices including gaming consoles and streaming services as well as google chrome and
firefox extensions uh with a very simple ui that makes it very easy to navigate uh of course both
of these vpns do have a live hour chat support that'll help you with your refund if you wanted to
get yourself a refund because well both of these vpns are covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee
no matter which plan you decide to go for so again if you guys are interested in learning more about
these vpns you'll find links to reviews down below as well as links to special deals and discounts
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