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The company points out that Catapult Hydra is used by 'the majority of large cybersecurity companies that offer VPN services from within their apps, such as McAfee, Bitdefender, Cheetah Mobile and many others.' In addition, 'carriers such as Telefonica and KDDI also use Catapult Hydra to provide VPN services and Wi-Fi security to their customers.'As a result, though the code isn't publicly available, that doesn't mean its functionality hasn't been reviewed. OpenVPN is open source and any developer can look at the code, figure out how it works, perhaps find problems or suggest improvements вЂ“ something which isn't possible here.That doesn't mean you must take Hotspot Shield's claims entirely on trust, though. Which, for non-encryption geeks, is more than enough to keep you safe.One problem with proprietary technologies like Catapult Hydra is there's no easy way to see what else is going on. Catapult Hydra's focus is on improving performance, and the encryption side of the protocol uses much the same standards as everyone else.For example, the Hotspot Shield website reports that Catapult Hydra is based on TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.2, with AES-256 and AES-128 encryption, 2048-bit RSA certificates for server authentication and keys exchanged via Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE) for perfect forward secrecy (keys last for only one session, with new ones generated next time). This can be hugely complicated, but just seeing that a service supports a secure protocol like OpenVPN can give you reassuring feedback about its safety.Hotspot Shield is more difficult to assess, because although it now supports the standard IKEv2 protocol, the service mostly relies on its proprietary Catapult Hydra technology.This isn't as worrying as it might sound. It is using enterprise VPN technologies to protect.Understanding a VPN's security usually starts by looking at its protocol support, encryption and authentication details.

'- 'device hashes, which are used to identify devices and associate them with other data we collect. Simply put, this means that our VPN products do not store any information about what any specific user browsed or accessed through a VPN connection.'There is still some logging, the policy explains, including:- 'the duration of VPN sessions and the bandwidth consumed.'- 'the domains that have been accessed by our users, but on an anonymized basis such that we do not know which user accessed which domain (we also aggregate this information on an approximately monthly basis). Save 76% with our exclusive Hotspot Shield offer hereAccording to its privacy policy, Hotspot Shield does not keep any logs on its users (Image credit: Hotspot Shield) LoggingHotspot Shield's Privacy Policy includes some reassuring details on the company's logging practices:'Our VPN products do not log or otherwise record IP addresses, device identifiers, or any other form of identifier in combination with your VPN browsing activity.

That's also very similar to the speeds we've seen in previous reviews (320-330Mbps last time, 330-410Mbps before that), giving us extra confidence in the results.IKEv2 speeds were very poor by comparison at 35-40Mbps. We're left to take Hotspot Shield's words on trust.We used Ookla's Speedtest to measure the performance of Hotspot Shield, among other sites (Image credit: Ookla) PerformanceHotspot Shield makes big claims about the performance of its Catapult Hydra protocol, but does it live up to the hype? We checked the service out with SpeedTest, TestMy, Netflix' Fast.com and other websites to find out.Connecting to our nearest US server from a US location with a fast 600Mbps connection, we ran multiple tests in morning and evening sessions across several benchmarking services (SpeedTest's website and command line app, Netflix' Fast.com, TestMy.net and more.) That gives scope for a lot of variation (which is why we run so many tests), but results were very consistent at 360-380Mbps. But, unlike some competitors, the company hasn't put itself through any form of public security or privacy audit, so there's no confirmation of these privacy promises. For example, the company could keep a record of the time and date of every session, the device used, your approximate location and how much data you transferred.Hotspot Shield clearly says none of this information can be used to link your account to any VPN browsing activity, which is good to hear.

TorrentsLike most VPNs, Hotspot Shield doesn't like to boast about its P2P support, but pay close attention to the website and you'll discover some good news.The service fully supports P2P on all servers, for instance, so once you've connected with any of the clients (Windows, Mac, Android or iOS), you're ready to start downloading.We don't like to take website claims for granted, so we verified Hotspot Shield's torrent-friendliness by successfully downloading torrents while connected to the US, UK and Japan.Search the support site for the keywords P2P or torrent and you won't find anything at all, but there are a few simple guides for beginners in the Resources and Blog sections ( try searching here), including advice on why you might want to use a VPN for torrenting, and pointers on How To Download Torrents Anonymously. That all makes Hotspot Shield an easy choice for our best streaming VPN list. Save yourself a packet with our exclusive Hotspot Shield offer hereHotspot Shield was able to unblock US and UK Netflix without difficulty, so we didnвЂ™t witness any nasty error messages (Image credit: Netflix) Netflix and streamingConnecting to a VPN can help you bypass all kinds of website restrictions, from streaming sites which block content in specific countries, to nations such as China which block a host of popular sites.Measuring a VPN's unblocking abilities is difficult as there are so many factors involved, but we try to get a feel for its effectiveness by checking how the service works with BBC iPlayer, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+.Hotspot Shield provides specialist streaming servers which should make this easy (no need to try 5x US servers to find one which gets you into Netflix), but to confirm this works reliably, we test each service using three separate logins and IP addresses.BBC iPlayer has the technology to detect and block many VPNs, but Hotspot Shield bypassed all that for all our test logins and allowed us to stream whatever content we needed.Netflix is normally one of the most difficult streaming sites to access with a VPN, but again, no-one told Hotspot Shield, and it allowed us to view US and UK Netflix without difficulty.The good news continued to the end of the test, with Hotspot Shield getting us into both Disney+ and Amazon, giving the service a perfect 100% unblocking success rate.

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