Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
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Mullvad IP fingerprinting is a deep security analysis with high community engagement.
Summary
Mullvad's deterministic exit IP assignment based on WireGuard keys creates a fingerprinting vector: despite 8.2 trillion possible combinations across 578 servers, only 284 unique IP sets exist due to a seed-based RNG using the pubkey and pool size. This allows tracking users across sessions even with key rotation every 1–30 days, as the same seed yields the same IP percentile per server.