Please correct me if I am wrong. My understanding of the password is this-it is used to login and be connected and is not used for the actual encryption. But if a password is like only 20 characters long it would be easy to crack and they would be able to login on my account and do stuff like download donkey shows or worse. So AirVPN is definitely out.
20 character passwords are not easy to crack, even if their hashes are stored in disgustingly-fast-to-hash-md5, unless they're "bad" in some other way (all ones, an exact phrase that appears in a piece of literature...).Perhaps you're a skeptic. That's great, me too. What happens when we try a longer random.org password on the massive cracking array?
09 char - 2 min
10 char - 2 hr
11 char - 6 days
12 char - 1 year
13 char - 64 years
The random.org generator is "only" uppercase, lowercase, and number.
Intel password strength checker.
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/forms/passwordwin.html
I typed 12 chars randomly and it estimate it will take about 10145 years to crack.
Please correct me if I am wrong. My understanding of the password is this-it is used to login and be connected and is not used for the actual encryption. But if a password is like only 20 characters long it would be easy to crack and they would be able to login on my account and do stuff like download donkey shows or worse. So AirVPN is definitely out.
Thanks for replying JackMDS.
That is the same old page note on it - "Encryption algorithm" = "BF-CBC (128-bit)"
Everytime I try to change the encryption it refuses to connect even when I use the certificate found on this page: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/forum/discussion/comment/38491/#Comment_38491
How do I set this up with pfSense? Doing the default works but it is not strong encryption-totally unacceptable.
PIA now support AES256 over the default OpenVPN client now on certain ports[1]. Some quick googling found a guide for pfsense[2] as well, not sure if you've tried this route or not.
[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...stock-openvpn-with-strong-encryption-settings
[2] https://www.privateinternetaccess.c...-setup-pfsense-with-strong-encryption-aes-256