Amnezia VPN

Amnezia VPN is a project by Internet activists from Russia, who are searching for solutions to resist state censorship. The first version was designed during the [https://6.demhack.org Demhack] hackathon in 2020,{{Cite web |title=Privacy Accelerator |url=https://privacyaccelerator.org/ |access-date=June 15, 2023 |website=Privacy Accelerator}} held by digital human rights activists from Roskomsvoboda.

Amnezia VPN supports modern blocking bypass protocols and works even where other VPNs don't work - in China, Iran, and Turkmenistan. For countries with low internet censorship, Amnezia supports WireGuard and OpenVPN. In 2022, Amnezia VPN successfully passed the security audit conducted by [https://7asecurity.com 7ASecurity]. Amnezia published free access to not only the source codes of the client part, but also the source codes of the server part.{{Cite web |date=2023-10-14 |title=Amnezia-wg - alternative to WireGuard, OpenVPN, Shadowsocks |url=https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/10192/amnezia-wg-alternative-to-wireguard-openvpn-shadowsocks |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=Cloudron Forum |language=en-US}}

Amnezia introduced its own [https://amnezia.org/en/learn-more/31_amneziawg AmneziaWG] protocol, a latest addition, which is an improved version of a popular WireGuard protocol and was designed to be used in the world's harshest internet climates.{{Cite news |last=Vainilavičius |first=Justinas |date=December 7, 2023 |title=Amnezia VPN adds new protocol to evade censors more easily |url=https://cybernews.com/privacy/amnezia-vpn-protocol-evades-censors/ |access-date=April 3, 2024 |work=Cybernews}}

Amnezia VPN does not require users to register, allowing all features to be accessed anonymously. It does not keep any logs of user activity and does not track users or use their personal data for any purposes.

• OpenVPN (AES-256-GCM; AES-192-GCM; AES-128-GCM; AES-256-CBC; AES-192-CBC; AES-128-CBC; ChaCha20-Poly1305; ARIA-256-CBC; CAMELLIA-256-CBC). You cannot use encryption at all (this is separately disabled). There is support for TLS authorisation.
• OpenVPN over Cloak (for OpenVPN you can use the same encryption types written above); Cloak (ChaCha20-IETF-Pole1305; XChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305; AES-256-GCM; AES-192-GCM; AES-128-GCM) + setting up a Fake-Website for Cloak; Shadowsocks (ChaCha20-IETF-Pole1305; XChaChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305; AES-256-GCM; AES-192-GCM; AES-128-GCM)
• OpenVPN over Shadowsocks (for OpenVPN you can use the same encryption types written above); Shadowsocks (ChaCha20-IETF-Pole1305; XChaChaCha20-IETF-Poly1305; AES-256-GCM; AES-192-GCM; AES-128-GCM)
• [https://amnezia.org/en/learn-more/31_amneziawg AmneziaWG] and WireGuard use the standard encryption method used in regular WireGuard.{{Citation |title=amnezia-vpn/amnezia-client |date=2024-04-12 |url=https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amnezia-client |access-date=2024-04-12 |publisher=Amnezia VPN}}

AmneziaFree is a Telegram bot for free access to blocked media and social networks websites. The developers launched AmneziaFree in March 2022, when Russian authorities started blocking media and global social platforms based on military censorship.{{Cite web|url=https://meduza.io/news/2022/03/29/vpn-servisy-predostavyat-rossiyanam-besplatnyy-dostup-k-zablokirovannym-media-i-sotssetyam|title=VPN-сервисы предоставят россиянам бесплатный доступ к заблокированным медиа и соцсетям|website=Meduza}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/ru/vpn-servisy-dajut-rossijanam-besplatnyj-dostup-k-smi/a-61297515|title=VPN-сервисы дают россиянам бесплатный доступ к СМИ – DW – 29.03.2022|website=dw.com}} One year after the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, AmneziaFree had almost 100,000 active users.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.wired.com/story/amnezia-vpn-russia-censorship/|title=The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship|first=Masha|last=Borak|magazine=Wired |via=www.wired.com}}

Amnezia service is available in Turkey, granting access to blocked websites deemed socially significant. The platform facilitates access to censored platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, X, Pastebin.com, WikiLeaks, and Booking.com, along with websites of independent media outlets and NGOs banned in Turkey.{{Cite web |last=Barış |date=2024-12-05 |title=Amnezia Free launches in Turkey, enabling access to censored websites |url=https://www.freewebturkey.com/amnezia-free-launches-in-turkey-enabling-access-to-censored-websites |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=Freewebturkey |language=tr-tr}}

In April 2023, Wired magazine featured Amnezia VPN as an open-source VPN out-maneuvering Russian Censorship. It described that Amnezia VPN being a service that allows users to set up their own servers, it is making it harder for Moscow to block this portal to the outside world.{{Cite magazine |last=Borak |first=Masha |title=The Open Source VPN Out-Maneuvering Russian Censorship |url=https://www.wired.com/story/amnezia-vpn-russia-censorship/ |access-date=2024-04-03 |magazine=Wired |language=en-US |issn=1059-1028}}

Mike Williams of TechRadar stated that Amnezia's website has simple and clear setup instructions, starting with some suggestions on where to buy your own server.{{Cite web |author1=Mike Williams |date=2021-09-11 |title=I built my own VPN server - and this is what I learned |url=https://www.techradar.com/news/i-built-my-own-vpn-server-and-this-is-what-i-learned |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=TechRadar |language=en}}

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