[kwlug-disc] Private Internet Access goes Open Source

[Chamunks]

Did I hear someone say OpenVPN is a pain to configure?
https://github.com/Angristan/OpenVPN-install < this is a beautiful thing.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:35 PM Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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