DAITA in airVPN?

[xEE 0]

are there plans to create an analogue of mullavad VPN's DAITA in airVPN?

[Staff 10422]

On 1/13/2026 at 1:48 PM, xEE said:

are there plans to create an analogue of mullavad VPN's DAITA in airVPN?

Hello!

We had a similar project that is now temporarily frozen for good reasons:

1. in real life the ability of the "AI"s to guess successfully the real destination from analysis of the VPN tunnel traffic is poor (the excellent success rates you see are achieved only in a controlled environment where the victim visits only destinations pre-determined from a tiny list)
2. AmneziaWG is quickly becoming (*) a more universal approach that may be effective and that does not require our own proprietary solution, provided that constant rate tunnel, deterministic batching and traffic morphing are not required -- safe assumptions as DAITA doesn't aim at obtaining them

(*) While early AmneziaWG releases could "only" add junk packets during handshakes, making it not suitable to replace DAITA, AmneziaWG latest release is also capable to perform padding of transport messages and modification of their header range. 

It can do all of the above, optionally, over a faithful imitation of a different protocol (any protocol that can be built on UDP), including specific HTTP/3 web sites initial flow mimicry. 

While these options efficacy in fighting AI guided traffic analysis must be verified in a controlled environment when AI abilities will improve, and in spite of the fact that AmneziaWG currently lacks the important active distortion feature that DAITA offers, together with reason 1 they are sufficient to let us prioritize AmneziaWG support in the infrastructure and our software, and freeze proprietary solutions research.

Once AmneziaWG is operating in the whole infrastructure, it may be considered whether adding active distortion to match this DAITA feature, or anyway building additional features to outperform DAITA (on top of the many already available in Amnezia and not from scratch), is worth the effort or not.

Kind regards