Original author(s) | London Trust Media, Inc. |
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Initial release | August 2010 |
Development status | Active |
Operating system |
Microsoft Windows Mac OS X Linux iOS Android |
Available in | English |
Type | Virtual private network |
License | Commercial |
Website | https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ |
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. PIA offers several features like the following:
The CEO of Private Internet Access (and its parent company, London Trust Media, Inc) is Ted Kim.
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.
Private Internet Access servers operate VPN gateways in 37 regions across 25 countries.
As of June 14th, 2017, Private Internet access servers were located in the following countries: