A few people have asked which of our OpenVPN configs they should be using, or which one is the most secure? We'll try to answer that here without getting too technical. We offer four types of configs: RSA , ECC , Ed25519 , and Ed448 . We also...

Port striping v1 When cryptostorm was first created, one of the first things we realized customers would need was the ability to connect to the VPN on non-standard ports. At the time, other VPN providers offered this by simply running extra Open...

As some of you know, we use a DNS based load balancer in our VPN setup. There's the "Global random" option in our Windows  widget , and a set of our OpenVPN configs with "Balancer" in the file name. Both of those use the host name balancer.cstorm....

Several months ago, security researcher Ahamed Nafeez disclosed the VORACLE compression attack against encrypted OpenVPN sessions which could allow attackers to decrypt encrypted VPN traffic if plaintext traffic such as HTTP was being tunneled thr...

After writing  https://cryptostorm.is/new explaining the recent changes we made to our network, someone recommended that we start a blog. That sounded like a good idea, and with a blog we don't have to keep making standalone pages every time we wan...