Private Internet Access
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| Original author(s) | London Trust Media, Inc. |
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| Initial release | August 2010 |
| Repository | github |
| Operating system | |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Virtual private network |
| License |
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| Website | www |
Private Internet Access (PIA) is a personal virtual private network (VPN) service. It supports multiple VPN technologies such as PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, SOCKS5 and OpenVPN.[4]
Company
PIA offers several features like the following:
- DNS leak protection
- IPv6 leak protection
- Internet kill switch to prevent traffic going elsewhere when VPN gets disconnected
- Access via UDP/TCP
- Multiple VPN gateways
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Port forwarding
The CEO of Private Internet Access (and its parent company, London Trust Media, Inc) is Ted Kim.[5] The founder is Andrew Lee.[6]
Private Internet Access also owns the Freenode and Snoonet IRC networks.[7]
Technical info
Data encryption level
Private Internet Access supports the AES (128-bit or 256-bit) specifications, SHA1 and SHA256 authentication, and RSA (2048, 3072, 4096) or Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) (256R1, 256K1, 521) handshakes; however, the default settings are AES-128, SHA1, RSA-2048.[8]
Server locations
Private Internet Access servers operate VPN gateways in 44 regions across 29 countries.
As of April 22, 2018, Private Internet access servers were located in countries:[9]
- Australia
- Austria
- Belgium
- Brazil
- Canada
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- India
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Romania
- Singapore
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- UK
- US
See also
References
- ^ "PIA VPN for iOS license".
- ^ "PIA Chrome Web Extension license".
- ^ "PIA Firefox Web Extension license".
- ^ Deirdre Murphy (2014-07-16) Privateinternetaccess Review, VPN Critic
- ^ "Private Internet Access Ted Kim Interview". bestvpn.com. Retrieved 2018-01-10.
- ^ "How one small American VPN company is trying to stand up for privacy". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ^ "PIA and freenode joining forces - freenode". freenode.net. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
- ^ Inc., London Trust Media,. "Private Internet Access Anonymous VPN". www.privateinternetaccess.com. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
{{cite web}}:|last=has generic name (help)CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ London Trust Media, Inc. "Private Internet Access Anonymous VPN". www.privateinternetaccess.com.