REQUEST: Multi-hop VPN tunnels
PIA has been my choice as my primary VPN for years. One of the reasons I
obviously chose PIA is because it is a no-log provider as evidenced by
court documents. The service has been great and it has many, many, fast
and reliable servers. PIA obviously, as a company, strives for privacy.
One of the things PIA is missing, if not the only, is multi-hop VPN
tunnels. At least three other providers come to mind that have this
feature: NordVPN, IVPN, and Perfect-Privacy, all of which are very
widely used and have a ton if users (NordVPN even double-encrypts its
multi-hops). PIA has one of the largest server pools of any major VPN,
and definitely the fastest servers. PIA dropped all Russian servers a
few months ago and introduced their Chicago pool of servers last month,
which to be honest, was not quite needed, as they already have the
Midwest servers based in the same data centre and state. A few new
servers are still in order, and PIA should be able to fund it because of
the Russian loss. A few multi-hop tunnels would greatly increase
attraction of new users and would massively increase privacy. Some
users, such as myself, have a legitimate fear of traffic correlation
attacks being used against them. A multi-hop tunnel can defeat this. PIA
should implement a few multi-hop tunnels, with the two (or three)
servers in the hop being in wildly different jurisdictions; for example:
NL -> CH, DE -> RO, US -> NO. I, and many users, would very,
very much appreciate this and I believe it would be a grand addition to
the service. Thank you.
Comments
As a quick example, set up your DD-WRT router to connect to Nederlands and run the PIA app on your PC connected to France. You could probably change the app connection at will and the brief period between servers would still be encrypted by the 'outer' tunnel created at your router This would give you an encrypted, anonymous tunnel running through an encrypted, anonymous tunnel. I see no reason this isn't scalable, either... add another subnet, use OpenVPN and the app simultaneously on your PC, VM's, etc.
If I'm not understanding your request, please explain - I would like to understand...
edit: at some point you would have to decrease MTU size as each new tunnel must fit into the the previous tunnel. If you try this and it won't work despite seeming like it should work, decreasing MTU would be my first suggestion...