how's it going guys welcome back and today we're going to be talking about some of the
top vpn protocols that you could be using so uh of course we have a few recommendations here
when it comes to the top vpns to use so if at any point you'd like to check for pricing or discounts
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if you'd like to know the ins and outs of the vpn now if you wanted the short answer here are
the top protocols for these vpns okay this will be the lightweight udp protocol for expressvpn
that'll be the nord links protocol for nordvpn and that'll be of course the wireguard protocol with
surf shark so if that's what you're looking for here's your answer but if you're looking for a bit
of an explanation of why these protocols are maybe better than the others we're gonna go through
some uh more of an explanation about the top vpn protocols that you could be using of course
when it comes to security we have this uh really good article here by nordvpn which is why i'll be
using it to explain so for the leading vpn protocols we have openvpn for starters and
openvpn is a very popular and highly secure protocol used by many vpn providers it runs
either on tcp or udp internet protocols this the former will guarantee that your data will be
delivered in full and in the right order while the latter will focus on faster speeds many
vpns including nordvpn will let you choose between the two uh udp will probably be your choice since
tcp will almost have your speed so the the pros when it comes to this vpn is that it's open source
meaning it's transparent anyone can check the code for hidden backdoors or vulnerabilities that might
compromise your vpn security it's super versatile and can be used uh with an array of different
encryptions and traffic protocols configured for different uses or be as secure or as light
as you need to be it's very secure and it has been audited multiple times by many different
uh independent independent audit companies so it really is super secure and it is able to bypass
most firewalls uh such as the firewall of china cons it's complex setups versatility that most
users may be paralyzed by choice and complexity if they try to set up their own open vpn so
i mean you don't really have to do that if you're using a vpn such as one of these
three vpns so of course they're already set up um so then you have ik ev2 or ipsec uh ikev2
sets the foundation for a secure vpn connection by establishing an authenticated and encrypted
connection it was developed by microsoft and cisco to be fast stable and secure it succeeds
on all of these fronts but where it really shines is its stability as part of the ipsec um internet
security toolbox ikev2 uses other ipsec tools to provide comprehensive vpn coverage and of course
it's super fast it takes up little bandwidth when active and it's natural makes it connect when
and of course it's super fast it's very stable and secure um though the problem is is that
you'll find that a lot of servers so when using expressvpn or vpn and surfshark you'll find that
possibly about half the servers won't be able to connect successfully with ikev2 so that is a yeah
that could be a bit of a problem when using uh ikev2 now when it comes to wireguard this
protocol is supposed to surpass all the previous protocols before it so wireguard is the newest
and fastest tunneling protocol the entire vpn industry is talking about it uses state-of-the-art
cryptography that outshines the current leaders openvpn ipsec and ikea ikea v2 however it's still
considered experimental so vpn providers need to look for new solutions like nord links by nordvpn
to overcome wireguard's vulnerabilities uh it's free and open source and anyone can look into the
code and it's super quick with very few lines of code making it super easy to fix when uh there are
problems so that is pretty cool but the problem is that it's still as it says here it's still
incomplete there aren't many independent audits to prove its security but in time you know this
is just a matter of time as more vpn providers pick up the wireguard protocol they'll be able
to perfect it and just so that you know by the way uh because it's still new expressvpn uh they came
up with their own kind of wire guard ish protocol it's not really a wire guard protocol protocol
it's their own kind of proprietary protocol called lightweight udp it's not as quick as
the true agar protocols of nordvpn and surf shark but it does the job very well and it is barely
lacking behind in speed only by uh maybe about five percent so you could say that north links
no the north links protocol is probably about five percent faster than expressvpn's protocol
uh which is not much but if you're looking for the fastest ever yeah you're gonna have to go with the
wireguard protocol of nord links uh and the slightly slower wire protocol of surf shark
and then we have the sstp which is uh developed by microsoft but unfortunately because it's
developed by microsoft uh vpn protocols tend to not really um recommend it since uh yeah if
microsoft has been known to cooperate with the nsa and other law enforcement agencies as it says here
so you know having backdoors to these protocols provided by microsoft it could be a little bit
problematic even though it is pretty secure and it is compatible with windows and it does help bypass
firewalls and then you have the outdated vpn protocols like the l2tp ipsec so these are just
protocols that you want to avoid they're secure but the problem is that they have been compromised
so they're not really very useful anymore unfortunately they don't help you bypass firewalls
they're slow and they are potentially uh compromised by the nsa and such and
and governments so not very not something you really want to mess with and then the pptp which
is the point-to-point tunneling protocol created in 1999 uh was the first widely available vpn
protocol it was the first design to tunnel dial-up if traffic if you remember dial-up it uses some
of the weakest encryption protocols of any vpn protocol on this list and has plenty of security
vulnerabilities uh vp nordvpn no longer supports pptp i think i think expressvpn still has pp2 no
okay no no not not anymore maybe they had it uh previously but it's just l2tp and they do
tell you that hey it's lower security be careful we'd rather you don't use it and
just use lightweight udp or openvpn udp or tcp whatever it is but i do usually recommend udp
for both openvpn and lightweight udp for the speed since it's significantly faster than
the their tcp counterparts uh so yeah this is uh you know fairly quick uh of course it's not going
to uh perform as well as the other protocols not in speed not in security not in any way really
and it has been uh confirmed to be cracked by the nsa so yeah since it's uh very easily decryptable
you shouldn't really use this protocol at all you know most most vpns really don't even support
this protocol anymore so i guess you really won't have a choice to use it in most cases
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