[kwlug-disc] Private Internet Access goes Open Source

[Darcy Casselman]

PIA absolutely uses OpenVPN, but OpenVPN is kind of a pain to configure. So
they provide VPN clients that skip all the configuration work. And that's
what they're releasing (one of the things, anyway).

I haven't been able to get the Linux client to work, so I just configure
OpenVPN. They provide instructions to do that too.

Darcy.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On a technical side, VPN better be something like existing standard and do
> not require active MitM on every SSL (cloud flare ?).
>
> On a human side, classical VPN requires trust to provider, unlike onion
> routing. If these guys, Private Internet Access, can be trusted, you may
> have a little faster traffic metadata hiding than Tor.
>
> Private Internet Access will be at LibrePlanet this Saturday-Sunday, and
> I'll have a chance to talk with them. Send me questions, you want them to
> answer. Think of uncomfortable questions, that can be answered only
> face-to-face, without corporate veil.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mikalai
>
> On 2018-03-21 08:16 AM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
>
> Well they use OpenVPN for much of the heavy lifting.  I imagine the
> software they're releasing as FOSS is more of the back end stuff, I
> guessing?
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 at 23:07 Chamunks <chamunks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there anything interesting about their VPN protocol that is any better
>> then OpenVPN?
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 10:17 AM CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I know there are a few people in this group who use this company besides
>>> myself, so I thought this would be interesting news:
>>>
>>> https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2018/03/private-internet-
>>> access-goes-open-source
>>>
>>> If you are looking for a VPN company, I do recommend these guys...
>>>
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