Private Internet Access

Private Internet Access
Original author(s) London Trust Media, Inc.
Initial release August 2010
Development status Active
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
iOS
Android
Available in English
License Commercial
Website www.PrivateInternetAccess.com

Private Internet Access (PIA) is a personal VPN service. It supports multiple VPN technologies such as PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, SOCKS5 and OpenVPN.[1] PIA offers several features:[2]

The CEO of Private Internet Access (and its parent company, London Trust Media, Inc) is Andrew Lee.[3]

Data Encryption Level

Users can select from variety of data encryption types: AES 128-bits, AES 256-bits and BF 128-bits. There also claim to provide handshake level encryption which includes RSA-2048, RSA-3072 and RSA-4096. Beside these, an improved elliptic curves also available on their software to select from ECC-256R1, ECC-256K1 and ECC-521. Private Internet Access also have option for high data authentication, for instance SHA1 and SHA256.

Server Spread and Location

In recent months private internet access claimed to add VPN servers in 11 new countries, increasing their previously announced to a number of 24 countries which are located in 35 regions across the globe. They claim to own more than 3342 secure servers on the planet, which makes Private Internet Access the only service provider to maintain 3000+ servers in the world. However, they haven’t mentioned the total number of dynamically shared IP addresses on official website.[4]

References

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  1. ↑ Deirdre Murphy (2014-07-16) Privateinternetaccess Review, VPN Critic
  2. ↑ Melanie Pinola (2013-04-05) Grab Private Internet Access VPN Service for 20% Off, Lifehacker
  3. ↑ "Leaked: Just before Bitcoin catastrophe, MtGox dreamed of riches". Ars Technica.
  4. ↑ Rebecca James (2016-07-30) Private Internet Access Review VPNAnalysis
  5. ↑ Mithun (2016-08-15) Private Internet Access Review VPNStart
  6. ↑ Arsalan Jabbar (2016-01-15) Private Internet Access Review VPNRanks

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