VLESS Reality VPN — flagship stealth protocol
VLESS with Reality handshake is the current state of the art for evading deep packet inspection. Hide a tunnel inside real TLS to a real site.
VLESS Reality is the default protocol on every VenvVPN node for a reason: it is the one configuration that consistently bypasses national-scale DPI in 2026. The Reality handshake terminates a real TLS session with a real upstream — your client knows the tunnel is inside, the censor sees only HTTPS to a popular site.
Good for
- Bypassing DPI in censored regions (Russia, Iran, China)
- Long-lived sessions without protocol rotation
- Daily-driver browsing on networks with mid-tier filtering
Caveats
- Throughput is lower than WireGuard on permissive networks (TLS overhead)
- The upstream site needs to be unblocked locally