ProtonVPN

ProtonVPN

By Mike Williams

ProtonVPN is an interesting Swiss-based VPN linked to the people behind ProtonMail, the popular end-to-end encrypted email service.

The company is strong on the security fundamentals. It ‘only’ offers servers in 14 countries, but many of these are selected for their strong privacy laws. The individual servers are owned and set up by ProtonVPN, and connected to the internet using the company’s own network.

Similarly, ProtonVPN only supports a single protocol, OpenVPN. That’s less convenient than almost everyone else, but it does guarantee your connection will always be using the strongest possible security.

ProtonVPN adds extra protection of its own. Traffic is routed through multiple servers before it leaves the network, so even high-tech snoopers monitoring an exit server won’t be able to trace individual users. Additionally, support for forward secrecy means the service uses a new encryption key every session. Even if that key is compromised, it can’t be used to decrypt other traffic.

You’re not a network geek? There are plenty of more familiar features here. The service is P2P-friendly, supports up to 10 devices, has a kill switch, DNS leak protection and built-in Tor support for accessing …read more

Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac

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