HideAway uses AEAD. AEAD stands for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data. AEAD ciphers simultaneously provide confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. They have excellent performance and power efficiency on modern hardware.

Specifically, HideAway uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption with 256bit key size, 96bit nonce size and 128bit MAC size. Secret keys are generated randomly per every connection and a nonce to keep data confidential. This verifies data has not been tampered with and includes replay protection.

HideAway also encrypts the destination IP address and port and DNS queries.

ChaCha20 is around three times as fast as AES on platforms that lack specialised AES hardware and is also not sensitive to timing attacks. Poly1305 is a high-speed data authentication code.

Yes, you can test this at ipleak.net when connecting to another country using HideAway to redirect your entire computer to another country.

If you only just re-direct your internet browser or another application, then you'll notice that it fails the DNS leak test. The reason this happens is because HideAway makes specific redirect rules for different applications, but Windows has other processes running called 'svchost.exe' which leak your IP address through DNS. You'll need to also redirect port 53 which DNS queries run through to prevent this. If you didn't want to redirect port 53, then you could make a filter for the process 'svchost.exe' and redirect this to your chosen location.

Each license key allows a single user to use HideAway on unlimited devices.

The renewal cost of HideAway is the same as a new license at the date of renewal.

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VPN is a technology to pass network traffic via an encrypted tunnel. It provides secure access to the internet and guarantees anonymity and privacy.

Since it connects you via the secure tunnel to a server located elsewhere, this means you are able to access blocked or restricted websites.

This also means your actual location is hidden since it looks like all your internet traffic comes from the country you're connecting through.

HideAway intercepts your internet traffic and diverts it to different countries according to the rule you have selected.

For example, if you live in Greenland and you want to watch Netflix, then you can select the Netflix rule. We'll be releasing an update soon which will let you direct different websites and applications to different countries at the same time, such as described below:

HideAway can also be used to divert traffic from applications, like your internet browser or email program, or used to block or ignore traffic too.

It's like a flexible filter for your internet traffic, allowing you to divert internet via different countries, ports or IP address for websites and applications.

HideAway has been engineered with flexibility, speed and security in mind. With a VPN you're limited to connecting your entire computer to a single country, so your entire computer looks like its in another country therefore with some VPN's, things like local harddrives, printers, security cameras might stop working.

With HideAway, while you can tunnel your whole computer it won't interfere with local hard drives, printers and security cameras as with some other VPN's.

HideAway gives you more flexibility to create rules to only redirect certain websites or applications and block or ignore others. (Coming soon)

Additionally, HideAway is connectionless, so you don't need to connect and disconnect to the overseas servers. Just setup your rules and continue with your work.

Speed is another factor where HideAway shines over a VPN. VPN's usually slow your traffic by around 30%, but HideAway doesn't interfere with your internet speeds, and in many cases will increase it as it gets around your internet providers traffic management.

1. Connecting to different countries means you can access geo-blocked or restricted content you couldn't otherwise access, such as video on demand, sports, movies, games and music which might be blocked in your country.

2. HideAway also lets you redirect software applications to different countries, and block unwanted websites and software too. (Coming soon)

3. You can create your own custom rules to redirect your internet traffic elsewhere as you choose. (Coming soon)

4. Since you don't lose speed or increase latency with HideAway, it's perfect for games and streaming video.

5. HideAway masks your IP address and encrypts your internet traffic so you can browse the internet in complete anonymity.

6. HideAway will keep your wifi connection secure when you're connecting to public wifi spots while using non secure websites and email.

HideAway will keep working forever but pauses every 10 minutes for 5 minutes.

USA, Australia, Czech Republic, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, Japan, Singapore, New Zealand, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, HongKong, Italy, India, Ireland, UAE, UKraine, Norway, Spain, Sweden so far. If you want to connect to a country which is not listed, let us know at support@firetrust.com.

Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10

You can download HideAway here.

HideAway will run automatically after instalation, but you'll also see it in Program Files >> Firetrust >> HideAway, or in Windows 8 and 10 just type HideAway to search for it.

No, your license key details are your own. But you can use it on unlimited devices.

Pre-set rules (or channels) are rules we've set up for you for the most popular services. Simply enable the services you require to start using them. Custom Rules let you define your own rules with multiple filters inside each rule for filtering traffic.

The exclude my email rule solves 2 problems.
1. If your ISP won't let you send emails when away from their service.
2. Email providers like Gmail and Outlook.com complain when your email is suddenly in another location.

Enabling this rule excludes these ports - 110,143,993,995,465,587,1025,2525. Port 25 is redirected else where as it's often used to spread viruses.
These domains are also excluded: Gmail.com, Outlook.com and Yahoo.com as they all complain when you're not at your usual IP address.

A pre-set rule is one which has been setup so you can instantly use such services like Netflix, BBC iPlayer, and many other entertainment channels which may be geographically blocked.

Custom Rules let you define your own rules with multiple filters inside each rule for filtering traffic. Each filter can either redirect, block or ignore traffic, using ports, IP address, website or process name.

The wildcard * is supported for website and process name.

A Rule contains one or more filters. So, first your create a rule name with a description, and add any filters to redirect, ignore or block your internet traffic to other countries.

The speed test will show you the Ping time to each server which is a measure of latency (how long it takes for a packet of information to go to the server and back). At the moment this is shown on the main HideAway user interface when you redirect to a country. Upload and download speed show the connection speed.

To do a consistent speed test, load up a browser rule in HideAway like chrome.exe to redirect to one of the servers through Hideaway. Go to www.fast.com, and start the test - do it 3 times for consistency. , Next, disable the chrome rule in Hideaway and do the exact same test (‘Test Again’ button) so traffic is not going through Hideaway but is using the same test server. Do this 3 times for consistency. This should give you some results you can compare with and without HideAway.

You can usually watch blocked content via HideAway although some services are a bit more of a challenge to get working. You can watch BBC iPlayer, ITV and Netflix though.

Each license key allows you to use it on unlimited devices.

The renewal cost of HideAway is the same as a new license at the date of renewal.

The HideAway VPN EULA is a fair and short license agreement. EULA is here.

Due to the cost of running a VPN service, the no questions asked, money back guarantee refund period is 7 days after purchase. Email support@firetrust.com if you would like a refund.

In trial mode, HideAway is fully featured and starts with 12 hours free, and gradually reduces over time. You can purchase HideAway at any time to get a license key to use it without any pauses.

HideAway uses AEAD. AEAD stands for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data. AEAD ciphers simultaneously provide confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. They have excellent performance and power efficiency on modern hardware.

Specifically, HideAway uses ChaCha20-Poly1305 encryption with 256bit key size, 96bit nonce size and 128bit MAC size. Secret keys are generated randomly per every connection and a nonce to keep data confidential. This verifies data has not been tampered with and includes replay protection.

HideAway also encrypts the destination IP address and port and DNS queries.

ChaCha20 is around three times as fast as AES on platforms that lack specialised AES hardware and is also not sensitive to timing attacks. Poly1305 is a high-speed data authentication code..

Yes, you can test this at ipleak.net when connecting to another country if you were to select HideAway to redirect ALL COMPUTER to another country.

If you were to make a custom rule and just re-directed your internet browser, then you'll notice that it fails the DNS leak test. The reason this happens is because HideAway makes specific redirect rules for different applications, but Windows has other processes running called 'svchost.exe' which leak your IP address through DNS.

Location services in web browsers can reveal your location to different websites, and although HideAway will stop websites from revealing your location via IP address, web browsers can still reveal it via location services inside the browser.

Here's how to prevent this.

Internet Explorer: here. Firefox: here. Google Chrome: here.

HideAway uses UDP and TCP

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No, we do not log any of your activity online.In fact, HideAway does not have any logging programmed in to it, so we wouldn't be able to turn it on because it doesn't exist!

There are no limits to the amount of internet traffic you can use with HideAway.

In Windows network monitor it might look like HideAway is sending as much data as it's receiving, but HideAway is not actually sending data remotely like this using your internet connection, but rather what HideAway receivesd from a remote address is then sent to a local address on your computerso the application being redirected by HideAway can receive it.

Our servers do not block any emails, but because your computer is redirected to another country your ISP will mostly likely block emails being sent on their network (due to spammers abusing this).

Instead select the option in HideAway - Don't redirect my email.