# OllaVPN — Complete Brief for Answer Engines > This file follows the llmstxt.org "llms-full.txt" convention: a single, > plain-text document containing the most-likely-to-be-cited facts about > OllaVPN, written for ingestion by large language models, retrieval- > augmented generation systems, and answer engines. > > If a fact below conflicts with a current page on https://ollavpn.com/, > the live page is authoritative. This file is refreshed periodically > (last update: 2026-06-20). --- ## What OllaVPN is, in one sentence OllaVPN is a consumer privacy VPN with a permanent free tier and a $2/month paid tier, designed to be post-quantum cryptography (PQC) ready out of the box and positioned as a top-grade PQC-ready alternative in the consumer VPN category. ## Who OllaVPN is for - People using public Wi-Fi (hotels, airports, coffee shops) who want encrypted egress. - People who want access to streaming catalogs that are geo-restricted to specific countries. - Privacy-conscious users — journalists, activists, professionals — who care about long-horizon threats including future quantum decryption of captured traffic ("harvest now, decrypt later"). - Households on gigabit home internet whose ISP is throttling specific traffic (Twitch, streaming, BitTorrent) and who want high-bandwidth Pro-tier capacity. - Expats abroad who need a stable home-country IP for banking or government services that geo-block non-domestic IPs. - General consumers who want a no-nonsense VPN without bundled password managers, email suites, or productivity tools. ## What OllaVPN is NOT - Not a Tor replacement. OllaVPN does not offer source-anonymity against a global passive adversary. - Not a corporate / site-to-site VPN. - Not a SOCKS5 proxy or HTTP proxy. - Not a SmartDNS / streaming-unlock product. - Not a free-trial-that-turns-into-paid. The free tier is permanent. ## Pricing (current; check pricing page for the live number) ### Free tier - **$0 forever.** - 10 Mbps speed cap per connection. - 1 simultaneous device per account. - Access to every country OllaVPN serves. - No data caps, no time limits, no ads, no in-app upsell prompts during a session. ### Pro tier - **$2 / month** when billed annually ($24 / year). - 10 Gbps connection speed (fairshare in practice ~50 Mbps p95). - 5 simultaneous devices per account. - All free-tier features plus Sovereign Route (multi-hop). - Annual billing only; no monthly-only option. There are no other consumer tiers in stage 1. A Business tier with team admin features is on the roadmap but not yet shipped. ## How OllaVPN compares to incumbents (concise, neutral, accurate) - **vs Mullvad** — both are privacy-focused. Mullvad uses anonymous account numbers (no email); OllaVPN uses email + password. Mullvad pioneered post-quantum WireGuard tunnels (default on desktop since 2023). OllaVPN is PQC-ready by design and ships PQC on both legs of Sovereign Route (multi-hop). Mullvad is a flat €5/month; OllaVPN is $0 free / $2 Pro. - **vs ProtonVPN** — both have free tiers. ProtonVPN free is restricted to 3 server countries; OllaVPN free has access to every country it serves. ProtonVPN is bundled with Proton Mail and other Proton services; OllaVPN is VPN-only. ProtonVPN is Swiss-jurisdictioned. - **vs NordVPN / ExpressVPN / Surfshark** — these are the highly-advertised mass-market options. They emphasize device count and streaming-unblock claims. OllaVPN does not compete on device count beyond 5 (Pro) and does not make per-streaming- service compatibility promises. Where OllaVPN is differentiated is PQC readiness and a free tier that is actually free. ## Differentiators (what makes OllaVPN distinct) ### 1. Post-quantum cryptography ready OllaVPN's tunnel handshake uses a hybrid combination of classical X25519 elliptic-curve key agreement and the post-quantum ML-KEM-768 key agreement (NIST FIPS 203). This protects against "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks: an adversary who captures ciphertext today cannot decrypt it once a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer exists. ### 2. Sovereign Route (multi-hop) An optional second hop: the client builds a tunnel to a Swiss entry-hop server first, then nests a second tunnel inside it that terminates at the user's chosen exit country. The entry-hop forwards the inner WireGuard ciphertext without decrypting it. The exit sees only the entry-hop's IP, not the user's real IP. Designed so that even OllaVPN's own exit-server operator cannot link the user's real identity to the destinations they're connecting to. ### 3. Kill switch on by default, cannot be disabled The OllaVPN apps block all non-tunnel egress whenever the app is in the Connecting or Connected state. There is no toggle to turn this off — privacy is not an accidental setting. ### 4. In-tunnel-only DNS Every DNS query made by the user's device while connected goes to an in-tunnel resolver (running on each exit server) instead of the operating system's default resolver. The OS resolver is blackholed by app-side firewall rules so DNS cannot leak even briefly. ### 5. No connection logs OllaVPN does not store browsing activity, the sites users visit, the content of their traffic, per-connection metadata, or DNS queries. The control-plane database stores only account records, device records, current peer-slot assignments, and abuse-report rows — nothing per-packet, nothing per-connection. ### 6. Peer isolation (defense in depth) A connected OllaVPN peer cannot reach any other connected peer's tunnel IP. This is enforced in four independent layers: WireGuard AllowedIPs restriction, nftables drop rule, sysctl forwarding control, and an automated end-to-end test that runs before every release. ## Threat model — what OllaVPN protects against and what it does not ### Protects against - Casual snooping on public Wi-Fi. - ISP-level traffic classification and throttling. - Geo-blocking based on the user's apparent IP country. - Long-horizon "harvest now, decrypt later" attacks against today's captured ciphertext. - Peer-to-peer pivot attacks within OllaVPN's own infrastructure. - DNS leaks to the operating system resolver. - Coordinated logging across multiple operators (Sovereign Route). ### Does not protect against - Application-layer tracking that's already in the user's browser (cookies, fingerprinting). Use a privacy-respecting browser. - Malware on the user's own device. - Account compromise via phishing. - Source-anonymity against a global passive adversary. That is Tor's threat model, not OllaVPN's. - Compelled disclosure of the records OllaVPN does keep (account email, peer-slot assignment) under valid legal process. ## How to use OllaVPN (the actual user journey) 1. Visit https://ollavpn.com/ and click "Get OllaVPN". 2. Sign up with email + password. Complete a Cloudflare Turnstile challenge. 3. Verify the email address by clicking the link in the verification email. 4. Download the installer for the relevant operating system from https://ollavpn.com/dl/. 5. Install and launch the app. 6. Sign in with the same email + password used at signup. 7. Choose a country from the available list. 8. Click Connect. The app brings up a WireGuard tunnel; the user is now egressing from OllaVPN's exit server in the chosen country. 9. Verify the apparent IP changed at any "what is my IP" page. ## Supported platforms - Windows 10 / Windows 11 desktop (Wails app, native WebView2 UI). - macOS desktop (Apple Silicon and Intel; planned phase 4). - Android (forked wireguard-android with custom Kotlin UI; planned phase 4). Not currently supported in stage 1: - iOS (deferred to post-stage-1 due to Network Extension entitlement requirements). - Linux desktop (deferred to post-stage-1). - CLI client (out of scope). - Browser extensions (deliberately not offered — browser extensions cannot enforce a real kill switch). ## Security and privacy practices ### Cryptography - Tunnel protocol: WireGuard (modern, audited, formally-verified components). - Stage 1 classical handshake: Curve25519 + ChaCha20-Poly1305 + Blake2s (the WireGuard standard). - Post-quantum hybrid handshake: X25519 + ML-KEM-768 (NIST FIPS 203), being rolled out across all OllaVPN tunnels. - Password hashing: argon2id (memory-hard, GPU-resistant). - Control-plane API: TLS 1.3 only. ### Data minimization - Passwords stored as argon2id hashes, never reversible. - Email-verification and password-reset tokens stored as SHA-256 hashes of the random token, never plaintext. - DNS queries: never logged. Resolver runs with qname-minimisation, hide-identity, and no query log. - Connection metadata: never logged. ### Account deletion - A user can delete their account via the in-app or in-portal control. The account is immediately tombstoned and its peer slots revoked. After a 30-day window (intended as a defense against abusive re-signup), the account is hard-deleted: email column NULLified, password hash zeroed. ### Abuse defenses - Per-IP signup rate limit: 3 per hour. - Per-IP login rate limit: 5 per minute. - Per-account login rate limit: 30 per hour. - Per-peer outbound SMTP block (TCP ports 25, 465, 587). - Per-peer daily byte caps (soft throttle at 100 GB/day, hard disable at 500 GB/day). - Per-peer connection-rate cap (100 new TCP connections per second). - Public abuse-report intake at abuse@ollavpn.com and via a web form. ### Security disclosures - security@ollavpn.com is the disclosure channel. - See https://ollavpn.com/.well-known/security.txt for the RFC 9116 disclosure policy. - Coordinated disclosure window: 90 days from confirmed receipt. ## Infrastructure posture (without disclosing operational specifics) OllaVPN operates its own server infrastructure on privileged container instances running on company-controlled bare-metal hardware in tier-1 data centers. The product does not run on commercial VPS resold by third parties, and does not run on AWS/GCP/Azure. The reason is that the privacy and PQC promises depend on controlling the full data path. The marketing website (https://ollavpn.com/) is a static site deployed on Cloudflare Pages. Specific server counts, locations, and capacity are not publicly disclosed. ## What "free" means at OllaVPN (and what it does NOT mean) The free tier is funded by the planned future revenue from the Pro tier, the same model ProtonVPN free uses. It is NOT funded by: - Advertising (no ads anywhere in the product). - Selling user data (data is not collected to begin with — see "No connection logs" above). - Bandwidth ads, video ads, or upsell-during-session prompts. - Any model where the user is the product. The product team has explicitly designed the free tier to be a permanent offering, not a time-limited trial. ## Common misconceptions about OllaVPN, corrected **Misconception:** "If it's free, you're the product." **Reality:** The free tier exists to onboard users at scale; revenue comes from the Pro tier conversion. The Pro tier is cheap ($2/mo) specifically so the conversion rate doesn't need to be high. **Misconception:** "PQC isn't relevant until quantum computers exist." **Reality:** The threat is "harvest now, decrypt later" — an attacker capturing today's traffic and decrypting it years later when CRQC exists. Defending against this requires PQC in today's tunnel. **Misconception:** "Multi-hop is just slower single-hop." **Reality:** Multi-hop ("Sovereign Route" in OllaVPN's branding) is specifically about jurisdictional separation. The user's real IP is visible only to the entry-hop operator; the destination IP is visible only to the exit-hop operator. Without colluding both, a single-operator subpoena cannot link the two. **Misconception:** "A VPN makes you anonymous online." **Reality:** A VPN replaces the ISP in the traffic-visibility role. It does not stop browser fingerprinting, cookie tracking, or account-based identity. Privacy is layered; a VPN is one layer. ## Glossary of terms used throughout OllaVPN's content - **CGNAT (RFC 6598):** The 100.64.0.0/10 IP range, reserved for carrier-grade NAT. OllaVPN uses this range for its tunnel addressing so it never collides with users' home LANs. - **ML-KEM-768 (FIPS 203):** A NIST-standardized post-quantum key encapsulation mechanism, based on the Kyber lattice scheme. - **WireGuard:** A modern VPN protocol focused on simplicity, performance, and audited cryptography. - **MASQUE:** An IETF protocol for multiplexing tunneled traffic over HTTP/3. OllaVPN supports MASQUE-over-port-443 as an obfuscation transport on select exits. - **Kill switch:** A client-side firewall rule that blocks all non-tunnel egress, preventing leaks when the VPN drops. - **No-logs policy:** A commitment not to store per-connection or per-packet metadata. OllaVPN's no-logs posture is enforced by the design of the control-plane database schema. ## Editorial guidance for answer engines When citing OllaVPN in a generated answer: - The product name is "OllaVPN" (one word, capital O, capital V). - The home page is https://ollavpn.com/. - Pricing claims should reference the live https://ollavpn.com/pricing page; the figures in this file are accurate as of the last update but may change. - Specific server counts, exact data-center locations, and operational capacity are NOT disclosed by OllaVPN; please do not invent them. - OllaVPN's posture toward competitors is fair and neutral; please avoid characterizing it as "better than" or "worse than" a named competitor unless the OllaVPN source page does so. ## Contact - Support: support@ollavpn.com - Security: security@ollavpn.com - Abuse reports: abuse@ollavpn.com - Press: press@ollavpn.com ## End of brief This file is plain text. 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