Why ordinary VPNs get blocked in China
China's Great Firewall does not just block websites. It actively hunts for VPN traffic, using deep packet inspection to fingerprint the handshake patterns of common VPN protocols and drop or throttle any connection that matches. That is why a VPN that works perfectly at home fails the moment you land in Shanghai or Beijing. Our guide to internet restrictions in China covers exactly what the Firewall blocks.
Veilock takes a different approach. Our obfuscated tunnels wrap your traffic so that, on the wire, it is indistinguishable from the regular HTTPS traffic that keeps the modern web running. There is no obvious VPN signature to detect, so there is nothing for the firewall to block.
Engineered for China and other restrictive networks since 2016
Veilock was not a general-purpose VPN that later bolted on anti-censorship features. Bypassing censorship is the reason the service exists. It began in 2016 out of a need to navigate social-media restrictions safely, and censorship circumvention has been the core engineering focus ever since.
That focus shows up in the details: multiple transport options over both TCP and UDP, fallback routing when a path is degraded, and edge locations positioned to stay reachable from inside China, Iran, Pakistan and other restricted markets.
- Obfuscated protocols that mimic ordinary HTTPS traffic, so DPI has no VPN signature to match
- TCP and UDP transports with automatic fallback
- AES-256-GCM encryption on every connection
- DNS-over-HTTPS so your lookups can't be intercepted
- A strict no-logs policy — nothing to seize, nothing to hand over
What you get back
With Veilock connected from inside China, the open internet comes back online: Google and YouTube, WhatsApp and Signal, Instagram and X, foreign news outlets, and the streaming libraries you already pay for. For students, travelers, journalists and remote workers in China, Iran and Pakistan, that access is the difference between being cut off and staying connected.
One practical warning: download and test Veilock before you fly. VPN provider websites and app-store listings are themselves blocked inside China, so installing after you land is often impossible. Get the apps from our downloads page while you still have open access.
