ADDITIONALLY, and I can't stress this enough, your username and password get transmitted in plaintext when connecting to the proxy and can be sniffed (especially on unsecured wireless networks).
LOL.
Couldn't PIA simply allow you to connect using a hashed version of your username and password? They could be shown in the control panel. Of course someone could still sniff them and use the proxy with your hashed login but that would be all that they could do then. It would be a bit of a workaround but I suppose it would work...
Is there any way to get utorrent to have an open port when using the proxy? I have set up port forwarding on my router but the port doesn't show up as open because the proxy itself doesn't forward the port.
PIA has just deployed new proxy-gateways (unused).
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I would very much like the option of using SSH to access the proxy. Allowing passwords and other sensitive information to be sent in the clear is not something I am willing to do.
There are many free programs available to make the connection relatively easy. Putty and Bitvise Tunnelier are two free programs. ProxyCap is inexpensive and works very well also. I have used SSH tunneling to a proxy with services such as SecureTunnel and find that being able to force a specific application to use the proxy while keeping the default Internet connection going through my ISP (or another VPN) is the best of both worlds.
Please implement this along with a US proxy server and you will have an unbeatable combination.
Are there any plans to add port forwarding (or better yet, UPnP) to the proxy server? I'm currently "unconnectable" according to my tracker, but still uploading and downloading. I don't mind running over VPN (I do very little besides download on that machine) if I find the transfer performance suffering (I haven't yet after a few hours of running the proxy), but just having the proxy just running in Deluge seems like lower overhead.
@secrepus: I've said this before, although somewhere else: The Socks protocol is not really compatible with the kind of port forwarding needed for torrenting. UPnP is something else entirely and doesn't work here at all.
Now, the SSH approach would be something that could be configured to allow remote ports to be tunneled, because it works differently but still provides a Socks interface locally. Port forwards would be around the socks proxy (but still tunneled and encrypted), but if you know your external IP you should be able to configure it correctly, depending on the torrent client.
does anyone else have a problem with the proxy in utorrent where torrents stop working and show no seeds and only one leecher in the swarm? i have to restart utorrent every few hours of sitting idle for it to connect to torrents...
I'm still quizzing out why you hit the start button to shut down your computer so that should give you an idea of my expertise. I have PIA running whenever I have the computer on. My question has to do with my remote server, Filezilla, sftp and PIA's socks 5 proxy. First, with PIA connected does Filezilla and the sftp associated with it run thru the PIA vpn tunnel? If so does that mean the data is running thru a tunnel thru a tunnel? Second, I connected Filezilla to PIA's socks 5 proxy and it appears to work great. The downloads from my remote server come thru great and the speed does not seem to be noticably affected. Now after reading this thread and seeing various statements that the socks 5 does not support encryption I wonder if I am shooting myself in the foot by connecting Filezilla to the socks 5. I assume that my remote server is sending sftp encypted data back toward the socks 5 but is the socks 5 then sending unencrypted data to my home computer (and, more importantly, past my ISP)? If it is will PIA's vpn tunnel contain it? Thats all for now, my head is starting to ache.
I appreciate that you offer a proxy service and up until reading this thread I was about to start using it for some of my web browsing. However, as it's been pointed out the traffic is not encrypted. No encryption equals no privacy IMO. To some extent it protects anonymity, but not privacy.
A SSH tunnel service would be in line with the company goal to offer "private internet access".
Had the proxy working using qBittorent (on Ubuntu), but 3 days ago the connection stopped working - the trackers showing as "Not working". If I switch off the proxy, the tracker connections start working again.
So I'm using uTorrent and have been having issues with torrents not starting to download. They will load in via RSS but nothing will happen if I have everything with a checkmark under the proxy settings. Well ideally I'd like to have everything checked for anonymity. Anyone else having this issue and found a fix other than disabling the proxy or unchecking those things? I'm thinking it has to do with who I'm connecting.
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Hope this helps!
Now, the SSH approach would be something that could be configured to allow remote ports to be tunneled, because it works differently but still provides a Socks interface locally. Port forwards would be around the socks proxy (but still tunneled and encrypted), but if you know your external IP you should be able to configure it correctly, depending on the torrent client.
I'll try to figure out SSH tunneling. If instructions for setting that up exist on the forums, could you point me to them? Thanks!
PIA does not (yet?) off SSH tunnels. My mention of it was mainly a nod to @John_D's post.
Also am I the only guy who wants a UK proxy
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I appreciate that you offer a proxy service and up until reading this thread I was about to start using it for some of my web browsing. However, as it's been pointed out the traffic is not encrypted. No encryption equals no privacy IMO. To some extent it protects anonymity, but not privacy.
A SSH tunnel service would be in line with the company goal to offer "private internet access".
Thanks for the excellent VPN.
If I switch off the proxy, the tracker connections start working again.
Has something changed on the PIA side?