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AirVPN
Initial release2010 (2010)
Operating system
Platform
TypeVirtual private network service
Websiteairvpn.org

AirVPN offers an Internet service aimed to enhance personal data protection, improve privacy and bypass Internet censorship through technical tools focused around a virtual private network (VPN) service and The Onion Router.[1]

AirVPN was founded in 2010 by Italian activists and is currently operated by a company with the same name in Italy.[2] [3]

The service is based on OpenVPN and optionally on Tor. AirVPN develops and releases desktop applications for GNU/Linux[4], macOS, OS X, Microsoft Windows operating systems and mobile apps for Android[5]. Manual setup is available for DD-WRT, Tomato, MerlinWRT and OpenWRT routers, as well as pfSense systems.[6]. To date, AirVPN designs, develops and distributes exclusively free and open source software released under GPL.[7][8]

AirVPN is based in Italy and operates servers in countries where no mandatory data retention law is in force[9]. According to the privacy notice and terms, the service is compliant to the EU 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR" and does not log and/or store clients traffic content or metadata. The service privacy terms, furthermore, explicitly claim that entering any personal data into the service accounts information is not required. [10]

Features[edit]

AirVPN bases service delivery essentially on OpenVPN and Tor. OpenVPN is configured in TLS mode: the Control Channel supports up to TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-GCM-SHA384 cipher suite while the Data Channel up to AES-256-GCM with AEAD for packets authentication cipher suite. TLS version 1.2 is supported as well. Perfect Forward Secrecy is achieved through Diffie-Hellman key exchange with 4096 bit DH keys. [11]

Users can chain OpenVPN and Tor, Tor and OpenVPN, any local or external proxy and OpenVPN, OpenVPN and additional TLS and SSH tunnels .[12] [13]

AirVPN supports IPv6 as well as IPv6 over IPv4.[14] When OpenVPN 2.4 or higher versions are used, the service supports also "tls-crypt", a typical OpenVPN operational method to encrypt the whole Control Channel, which has been instrumental in bypassing OpenVPN blocks enforced by the Great Firewall of China.

The free and open source software "Eddie", developed by AirVPN, automatically allows a connection of OpenVPN on Tor on all supported desktop platforms by preventing the infinite routing loop problem without requiring manual setup by the user.[15] However, this feature is not available on the Android version.[16]

The software may optionally set firewall rules to block traffic to flow outside the VPN tunnel, a feature named "Network Lock" and thought to prevent unintended "traffic leaks" in clear text or coming from the client real IP address.

The servers running OpenVPN are dedicated servers and each one runs its own DNS server.

Related activities[edit]

AirVPN runs mirror servers [17] to distribute open source software which is allegedly "compatible with AirVPN mission". STunnel, VLC Media Player[18], Tor Project and some GNU/Linux distributions such as Tails and Devuan use AirVPN mirrors too.

AirVPN runs Tor nodes and has supported and supports financially or technically various organizations and foundations including EDRi, OpenNIC and OpenBSD Foundation.

Reception[edit]

In 2011, after the LulzSec members identity was compromised by logs kept by the HMA VPN service, The Guardian[19] published a part of AirVPN press release. Claims by HMA were, according to AirVPN, incorrect and dangerous for the "mere conduit" status of Internet Service Providers. Privacy International wrote that AirVPN offers a service which Privacy International "would happily recommend"[20]

In 2011, AirVPN was praised by Rick Falkvinge for having started to accept Bitcoin as payment method, a feature which still maintains nowadays.[21]

Ever since 2011 TorrentFreak has interviewed AirVPN each year in the annual comparison of VPN providers.[22][23][24][25][26][27]

In 2015, Tom's Hardware led a survey amongst the magazine readers and AirVPN came out as the top choice with the highest average vote from the readers. The magazine consequently wrote a dedicated review which described the service favorably.[28]

In 2017, AirVPN was the 4th top donor to finance an OpenVPN security audit under Ostif initiative. [29]

In 2017, Freedom House mentioned AirVPN as one of the tools which are effective to evade Internet Censorship in Saudi Arabia and other countries.[30]


See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "AirVPN mission". AirVPN. May 2010. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  2. ^ AirVPN. "About Us". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  3. ^ Ernesto (March 4, 2018). "Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2018?". TorrentFreak. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Athow, Desire (21 Aug 2018). "The Best VPN for Linux in 2018". TechRadar. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  5. ^ Google Play Store. "AirVPN Eddie OpenVPN GUI". Retrieved September 1, 2018. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ AirVPN. "List of compatible systems". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  7. ^ AirVPN. "Our sofware is released under GPLv3". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  8. ^ GitHub. "AirVPN software". GitHub. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  9. ^ AirVPN. "Real time servers monitor". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  10. ^ AirVPN. "Privacy Notice and Terms". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  11. ^ AirVPN. "Technical specifications". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  12. ^ AirVPN. "Usage of AirVPN with Tor". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  13. ^ Ernesto (March 4, 2018). "Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2018?". TorrentFreak. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
  14. ^ AirVPN (Jun 15, 2018). "IPv6 support". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  15. ^ StackExchange (January 8, 2014). "Me->Tor->VPN: How". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  16. ^ "Eddie Android edition". AirVPN. May 2, 2018.
  17. ^ AirVPN. "Mirrors". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  18. ^ "VLC Mirrors". VideoLAN Organization.
  19. ^ Arthur, Charles (Sep 26, 2011). "Second LulzSec hacker 'Neuron' could be tracked down via UK VPN". The Guardian. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  20. ^ Martin, Adam (Sep 23, 2011). "LulzSec Hacker Exposed by the Service He Thought Would Hide Him". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  21. ^ Falkvinge, Rick (Sep 27, 2011). "Never Trust a VPN that doesn't accept Bitcoin". Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  22. ^ Enigmax (2011-10-07). "Which Are The Best Anonymous VPN Providers?". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2011-10-08.
  23. ^ Enigmax; Ernesto (2013). "Review: Is Your VPN Service Really Anonymous?". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2014-01-06.
  24. ^ Ernesto (2014-03-15). "What Are The Best Anonymous VPN Services?". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2014-03-15.
  25. ^ Ernesto (2015-02-28). "Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously? 2015 Edition". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2015-03-02.
  26. ^ Ernesto (2016-02-20). "Which VPN Services Take Your Anonymity Seriously?". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2016-02-20. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2015-03-02 suggested (help)
  27. ^ Ernesto (2017-03-04). "Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2017?". TorrentFreak. Archived from the original on 2017-03-04.
  28. ^ Armasu, Lucian (Sep 26, 2015). "AirVPN review". Tom's Hardware. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  29. ^ "OSTIF Top Donors". OSTIF. June 27, 2017. Archived from the original on 2017-04-04.
  30. ^ "Saudi Arabia Country Profile". Freedom House. January 31, 2017.

External links[edit]

Category:Virtual private network services Category:Internet privacy

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