VPN Encryption

I've been a happy PIA subscriber since the Snowden controversy. However every time I see them becoming more popular (at least 4 of my friends have signed up with them in the past few weeks) and earnestly trying to make themselves more secure, I also realize that someone, somewhere within the NSA (and yes, other intelligence agencies around the world) is elevating them on a list of VPNs to break.

While I&#x27;ve heard good things about PIA, you&#x27;re still trusting someone else with your data. Whether you trust them or not is entirely up to you, but it&#x27;s not that hard to set up your own VPN tunnel. We posted about it a few weeks ago here: <a href="https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/dont-get-pwned-on-public-wifi-use-your-own-vpn-tutorial-guide-how-to" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tinfoilsecurity.com&#x2F;blog&#x2F;dont-get-pwned-on-publi...</a>, and there was some good HN discussion on it here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285458" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=6285458</a>

Note: ECC-521 is not a typo. It is really 521-bit curve.<p>Standard: <a href="http://www.secg.org/collateral/sec2_final.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.secg.org&#x2F;collateral&#x2F;sec2_final.pdf</a><p>Explanation: <a href="http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/6219/why-do-the-elliptic-curves-recommended-by-nist-use-521-bits-rather-than-512" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;crypto.stackexchange.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6219&#x2F;why-do-the-el...</a>

I use this service, and have been thrilled with it for a long time. They do no logging whatsoever, and their encryption and endpoint options are great.<p>they are also by far the cheapest truly secure option in this space - $40&#x2F;year

FYI, this is the info page for our new (beta) OpenVPN based client which supports multiple encryption options:<p><a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/1724/encryption-now-it039s-in-your-control-beta" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.privateinternetaccess.com&#x2F;forum&#x2F;index.php?p=&#x2F;dis...</a>

It should be noted that while they use curves generated by Certicom, Certicom is now a subsidiary of BlackBerry.

a friend of a friend is a happy customer of PIA for over 9 months now. their customer service is actually really good.

How is this different from other commercials VPNs? If you really want privacy choose offshore VPN that doesn&#x27;t keep logs.

VPN providers would make great honeypots.

I was a bit surprised OpenVPN still doesn&#x27;t support GCM mode.

Pretty bogus preset choices, what is this? If the provider isn&#x27;t providing the expertise to ensure a safe connection for every customer, what the hell are they doing?

@HNmods, any reason this was removed from the first page?

or, you could just use <a href="https://airvpn.org/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;airvpn.org&#x2F;</a>