Unlike with ProtonVPN, however, these other providers do not have the same physical security infrastructure in place.
In addition to ProtonVPN, there are also other VPN providers that offer multi-hop VPN configurations. Finally, Secure Core servers are connected to the Internet using our own dedicated network with IP addresses that are owned and operated by our own Local Internet Registry (LIR). Furthermore, Secure Core servers are wholly owned and provisioned by us(shipped on-site directly from our offices). ProtonVPN infrastructure in Switzerland and Sweden is housed in underground data centers, while our Iceland servers are on a former military base. We also placed our Secure Core servers in high-security data centers to ensure strong physical security. First, servers are located in countries selected specifically for their strong privacy laws (Iceland, Switzerland, and Sweden). We have also gone to extraordinary lengths to defend our Secure Core servers. ProtonVPN has gone to great lengths to ensure the security of these “core” servers: This protects against a compromised server in a third-party data center, for example. The main advantage of the Secure Core servers is that it provides an additional layer of protection. In other words, your traffic will first get routed through one of the Secure Core servers before going to the second VPN server and exiting the encrypted tunnel. The Secure Core feature is basically a double-hop VPN server configuration routed through ProtonVPN servers in Switzerland, Sweden, or Iceland. One unique aspect of ProtonVPN is their implementation of Secure Core. This isn’t too bad for geographic diversity and is about on par with NordVPN. This is similar to Perfect Privacy and OVPN in Sweden.Ĭurrently, ProtonVPN has 1,432 servers in 61 different countries. ProtonVPN runs its entire network on dedicated bare-metal servers.
The ProtonVPN Android app supports the OpenVPN protocol.įor the data channel, ProtonVPN uses an AES-256-CBC cipher together with HMAC SHA-512 authentication.
The Mac OS and iOS apps utilize the IKEv2 protocol.
The ProtonVPN Windows client and Linux script utilizes the OpenVPN protocol. The Mac OS client also did not have any leaks that I could find. The screenshot above is with the ProtonVPN Windows client.
Even though my collection doesn't compare to some others shown here in this thread i'm really proud of what it's grown to be and while it may not come close to rivaling those particular members' massive collections i still think it's plenty respectable as is.The ProtonVPN apps did not have any leaks. The Dragon Boxes are by far my pride and joy out of everything shown here, and given that it took me four years to get them all the effort was most definitely worth the amazing deals i got them at.Īnd yes, it took a good bit of dedication to expand it all from what small bits i had before being a junior year college student currently.
I have worked on this for some time now and mostly with budgeting and selectively getting things over a period of time and though drawn out it has been great amassing everything. Yes indeed, it has taken me a good bit of time to acquire all of what is shown here since jumping back into the franchise with my reignited interest a few years back. I would dream to have a Dragon Ball collection like that someday! Amazing work! Must have taken a lot of dedication and money Not quite as big or expansive as some other member's collections also shown in this thread but it is respectably sized just the same. Thanks man, it has grown a good deal in the span of just over a year that i've had my account here on the forum and still continuing as i gradually pick up more.