Openwrt

I use an OpenWRT travel router to deal with public WiFi access security and geolocation concerns. I have written extensively prior and ran into an issue with the latest OpenWRT release. For those struggling with PIA using the luci-app-openvpn please see the below for a working config you can place in /etc/config/openvpn. Grab the new PIA Strong crypto files here: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/openvpn/openvpn-strong.zip vi /etc/config/openvpn Paste this block of text and change the hostname as needed config openvpn 'piaEU'                option dev 'tun'                option nobind '1'                option verb '3'                option fast_io '1'                option persist_tun '1'                option persist_key '1'                option client '1'                option proto 'udp'                option tls_client '1'                option remote_cert_tls 'server'                option cipher 'aes-256-cbc'                option auth 'sha256'                option ca '/etc/config/ca.rsa.4096.crt'                option keepalive '10 120'                list remote 'nl.privateinternetaccess.com'                option comp_lzo 'adaptive'                option auth_user_pass '/etc/openvpn/authuser'                option resolv_retry 'infinite'                option reneg_sec '0'                option disable_occ '1'                option enabled '1'                 option crl_verify '/etc/config/crl.rsa.4096.pem'                option port '1197' The port is a biggie. Make sure it is the correct one for the new secure settings! ...

—- Cross Post from the Spec Ops Technology Blog —- Spec Ops Technology prides itself on taking difficult problems and providing practical engineering solutions. Quite often this real world experience is born of a real world problem we personally faced. There is a passion we look for in our engineers that breeds a team that, by nature, develops creative fixes. As the United and Lufthansa ticket counters can attest, I spend a lot of time on the road. In today’s connected world I depend on a secure and platform agnostic internet connection. There a few major hurdles that make this difficult: ...