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Private Internet Access

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Initial release
  
August 2010

Available in
  
English

Development status
  
Active

License
  
Commercial

Original author(s)
  
London Trust Media, Inc.

Operating system
  
Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux iOS Android

Private Internet Access (PIA) is a personal VPN service. It supports multiple VPN technologies such as PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, SOCKS5 and OpenVPN. PIA offers several features:

Contents

  • DNS leak protection
  • IPv6 leak protection
  • Internet kill switch
  • 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 Andrew Lee.

    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.

    Server Locations

    Private Internet Access servers operate VPN gateways in 35 regions across 24 countries.

    As of January 1st, 2017, Private Internet access servers were located in the following countries:

    1. Australia
    2. Brazil
    3. Canada
    4. Denmark
    5. Finland
    6. France
    7. Germany
    8. Hong Kong
    9. India
    10. Ireland
    11. Israel
    12. Italy
    13. Japan
    14. Mexico
    15. Netherlands
    16. New Zealand
    17. Norway
    18. Romania
    19. Singapore
    20. Sweden
    21. Switzerland
    22. Turkey
    23. UK
    24. US

    References

    Private Internet Access Wikipedia
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