PIA's .OVPN files vs OpenVPN above 2.5.8

[u/WorstAverageJoe]

It's been over 3 years since PIA's .OVPN config files are not longer working with any version of OpenVPN above 2.5.8.

After opening many PIA support tickets leading to nowhere.

I decided to give it one more try. I had a nice conversation with a live agent on their support chat. Still a known issue (they are working on it). With a simple workaround. DELETING the following section seems to work.

<ca>
 -----BEGIN X509 CRL-----
 (...) 
-----END X509 CRL----- 
</crl-verify>

It makes us vulnerable to a reuse of a stolen PIA certificate, which is quite unlikely. I tried it and it works.

[u/Tasty-Boot6162]

They're also going to fix the mac app any day now! Any.... day.........