ANSWERED How to force cipher none?

[ac130kz 0]

A bit of my experience with OpenVPN: I used to have my own VPS with a OpenVPN server over UDP, on which I forced cipher none in order to further improve performance (I'm not concerned about privacy). After clean OpenVPN protocol was blocked, I started using AirVpn. Unfortunately, only SSL on 443 works, and as I see on the Stats page AES-256-GCM is used. I tried adding cipher none to base directives, but it did not work.

 

PS please add any other suggestions to improve the performance

[go558a83nk 362]

AirVPN won't do that as they ARE in the business of security and privacy but they do have a list of ciphers that can be used.  One may be easier on your CPU than aes-256-gcm but usually gcm is the fastest.

 

https://airvpn.org/specs/

[zhang888 1066]

If privacy is not your concern, why using a public VPN?

When you just need connectivity from another location,

consider setting a GRE tunnel or OpenVPN cipher-none,

or just some SOCKS proxy on a random VPS you can buy

for $2-3 anywhere online.

 

No commercial VPN provider will offer you NULL ciphers.