On 01/06/18 08:55, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Il 01/06/2018 06:25, James Peng via Openvpn-users ha scritto: >> I found there are more than one openVPN client app on the Google Play store. >> Which one should I use? >> >> Thanks, >> James >> > > Very healthy paranoia here :). There are two primary options:
Both of these options are recommended by OpenVPN Inc, by the way. > OpenVPN Connect > - proprietary > - based on OpenVPN 3 > - author is OpenVPN, Inc This client has less visible "bell and whistles" for the end-user, and quite user-friendly for non-tech users. Configuration settings can only be modified by removing and importing a new configuration file. The goal for OpenVPN Connect is to be rock solid and long term stable. OpenVPN Connect currently uses mbed TLS as the SSL library, which is for some users behaving a bit different than OpenSSL. For most use cases, this won't be a big problem. But for some, this might not utilize some SSL/TLS protocol specific features or mbed TLS may reject some certificates. > OpenVPN for Android > - open source > - based on OpenVPN 2 > - author is a well-known community developer This client has more knobs to tweak and adjust, and you can essentially tweak configuration profiles from with-in the app as well. The OpenVPN 2 code base is far more bleeding edge, and is often based on the development branch of OpenVPN 2, so the stability may vary a bit more. As of v0.7.5 (or so) you can also flip between OpenVPN 2 and OpenVPN 3 implementations of the "backend" part of the the VPN tunnel. At least the OpenVPN 2 backend is using OpenSSL. I don't know yet whether the OpenVPN 3 backend is using OpenSSL or mbed TLS currently. > You might also find a "Unified [OpenVPN] client" or similar. That one is > also by OpenVPN Inc and will replace OpenVPN Connect in the long run. You're outdated, Samuli ;-) The "Unified client" was an internal jargon. But essentially OpenVPN Connect v3.x and newer is the new generation Connect client. This has a completely revamped user interface, but builds on the same OpenVPN 3 core library (just an updated version of the library). Hope this clarified a bit more :) -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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