Protocol
Providers that offer IKEv2, usually as the mobile default rather than as the headline.
IKEv2 is the key-exchange half of IPsec, standardised in 2005 and built into Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. It reconnects quickly when a device changes network, which is why most providers make it the mobile default.
On security it is sound when configured with modern ciphers, and it is usually the operating system’s own implementation rather than the provider’s. Its weaknesses are on the edges: it is easy to block because it runs on fixed ports, and it cannot be obfuscated. Both OpenVPN and WireGuard have had more public scrutiny.
IKEv2
More protocols
Four of the twelve terms — obfuscated, proprietary, vendor_open, wireguard_derived — are categories rather than protocol names: each says a protocol was disguised, closed or built on another, not which one it is. A record that publishes no protocol list at all appears on none of these pages (sixteen on file).
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