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Greetings!
After extensive weeks of private alpha testing and a few days of further alpha testing with a few selected applicants, we have finally launched our VPN! It is located at http://vpn.ccrypto.org/
We take PayPal, and Bitcoin, and have plans starting from €2/0.0025BTC a month, WITHOUT having to buy 12 months at a time.
We do not log any of your browsing, and you can even review our code on GitHub.

If you have any questions, especially how to install the VPN, consult our help section. If this fails, you can join us on IRC, #ccrypto on freenode, though we may be asleep. You can also message this account.

Update:
We now offer a free 3 days trial! just ask here, by email or on IRC to get one.
We also recently fixed multiple issues and have a new affiliate program!

http://ccrypto.org/vpn-home.png

I was one of the beta testers, +1 from me, works great

Yeah,

As a beta tester, I confirm that the service work.
Bandwidth tests was amazing, not slow at all!
The website gives you a .tlbk file, for Mac. Just what I need. I'm happy with it!

Andy "Cubox" Pilate

EDIT: Typo

The payment was done through Mt Gox, and the service is quite awesome. I'm pretty sure that the speeds were limited on my side too - +1 to Ccrypto VPN.

Setting up the VPN was really easy. Just create an account (you don't even need an email), pay for it, download the configuration files, and you're done. I tested using paypal as payment, and it went through fine with no hiccups.

I'll buy a subscription later, this service looks great.

Fixed a bug in our payment system asking for 0.2 btc when €2 worth of btc is actually around 0.075 btc.

I now see you don't keep any logs and usage cannot be traced back to you.

Is it not possible this could be LE trying to snoop on us all? I know this is over-the-top slightly but if they controlled a few VPNs then they could follow exactly what you did, even though you thought you were anonymous? Im merely interested and not accusing in the slightest!

If the feedback coming in remains good, Ill consider joining too.

Interesting thought.
The way we see it, is, arn't you snooped on all the time anyway? Google logs all your usage data and possibly Google drive files, and Facebook has been proven to track your data even outside of their site. I'm sure most of us regularly use Google and Facebook, so wouldn't it be much easier for the LE to buy your data from them and others? Both Google and Facebook have not been known to sell data, but what makes them any more trustworthy than us? Because they are a big corporation? If anything, that makes them more open to secret deals, or rouge employees who have access to the data. Countless corporations have done it in the past, and there are many places you can go to, to find extensive information on a person.
Cognitive Cryptography is run by 2 people, only 1 of which has access to HaiPeng, our VPN server; and by extension any "logs" we may keep. Everything I do that concerns the company is disclosed on irc, and the same with JackSparrow. If he went rouge, I would be the first to report.
Using our VPN is, given, risky because although we say we don't log your data, we always could. But we are no less risky than any other VPN. And plus, its more risky using Facebook and Google because they are GUARANTEED to log your data.
Google now has free internet, there is no reason why they won't log all of your browsing data from that.
There are even companies that store all tweets on twitter ever made, and even keep deleted tweets. There is software available to keep your own twitter logs for large scale crown analysis. Twitter has millions upon millions of daily users, CCVPN has no hope of achieving anywhere near a million. Why spend your time and money setting up a VPN company when you can access twitter logs for free(from, I dare say, a large amount of less technically, and by extension, privacy inclined users, who probably disclose a lot more about themselves than the average Bitcoin user?)?

Citations (in order of being mentioned):
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#section_1
http://m.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/feb/16/mobile-phone-internet-advertising
http://readwrite.com/2012/04/26/here-are-20-companies-who-sell-your-data-how-to-stop-them
http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/alternatives-to-twapper-keeper/

Interesting links:
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-to-stop-facebook-from-tracking-you-2012-9?op=1
startpage.com - startpage logs all Google search data, then let's you search it. You get the same search results as Google, but without the logs.

Phew, that took me over an hour.
HectorBarbossa.

Edit:
Added price plan to original post.

http://imgur.com/aVlZ3LG.png

Yes, you have good points about google, facebook and twitter but I doubt anyone who wants to stay anonymous (and you do advertise yourselves clearly as being a highly anonymous service) going to be logging into social media sites using a VPN. That sort of defeats the purpose IMO of staying anonymous lol.

The only way to really secure yourself from any VPN from knowing your connections is to do:

 Tor ----> VPN ------> Tor (VM)

But yes it is an interesting thought, especially considering VPNs are doing a lot of damage concerning copyright infringement, such as torrent downloading. So I personally would tend to trust the older VPNs as:

1. They have stood the test of time
2. I think it unlikely a VPN being around for a long time is rogue or LE.

I wish you all the best with your new business though.

Hi bluedye,

actually, you're right: We can't prove we do not log anything.
But anyway, neither can your ISP, or the owners of every routers you use.
We do log things, for technical purpose only, and this is not stored and will never be used or sold for anything, because our customers pay for their anonymity and a secure tunnel.

If you really want absolute anonymity, do not use our VPN. Do not use a VPN. Maybe don't even use the Internet.

Tor is one the best solution to be completely anonymous on the Internet, and a VPN with Tor is completely useless.

HideMyAss has been around for a long time, trusted by many people, ...
Look at that: http://blog.hidemyass.com/2011/09/23/lulzsec-fiasco/
How could they protect privacy if they do not allow *everything* ? They can't.

Everyone, sign up and ask us on IRC if you want a free week to try it. ;)

- the captain JackSparrow.

Trial period was too short for me to test security, but I was able to test speeds (fast! limited by my end, not theirs) and the external IP address, which changed while using the service. I was also able to set up the VPN on my Android phone.

The service was smooth, and the MtGox checkout worked well.

Hidemyass is far from being secure. If you need absolute security choose some Russian double VPN

Where are your servers located and in which country do the operators of this service reside in? Because the .com domain is under the US jurisdiction...

How fast is the vpn? EDIT: Oh i see now

We have one server in France, we will get more as we have more users.
Nothing is stored on the VPN server, user data and website are on another server at different ISP.
The VPN can still work without the .com domain, even without DNS if we have problems with that.

- JackSparrow

the worst US courts can do is shut the domain down

In case of a serious breach of law can't they prosecute the owners of the domain and ask to hand their clients' data if the owners of Cognitive Cryptography live in US?

EDIT: OK, I see, they would have to contact the Malaysian govt. first.

What data ? Usernames ? MtGox transaction ids ?
We only store safe things, that would not even be a problem.
- JackSparrow

Edit: For a limited time, we have added a plan that costs only 0.025 BTC.
This is Bitcoin only(unless you want to pay €999.99), and we may remove the option to buy it at any time.

HectorBarbossa.

Paypal emails? :)

You have no ToS and no mention of illegal activities so I guess someone should check what's safe and what's not? Or are you a honeypot?
Don't take me wrong - I'm happy to see new businesses offering bitcoins as a payment but you have no reputation here - and you remind me of our forum Pirate (probably due to your nickname).

I have a few questions:

1) Is 100 GB bandwidth per month?
2) Uptime?
3) What are your policies on running Tor exit nodes and torrenting?

We really don't care what you use the VPN for. You may use it for whatever you like. No ToS needed.
Yes, 100 GB per month.
Uptime, I use it all day and have no problems at all, I had one disconnection due to maintenance but we were back up within a minute.
Ah, pirateat40. I'm surprised Bitcoin has managed to rise so much despite him running away with millions of dollars only a few months ago.

Paypal emails, that's still safe. (except if you think the US gov want to spam you)

3) To be more precise, we should not and do not watch what users do, so actually it is allowed.

- JackSparrow

Is there an idea of increasing the number of output countries ?

If we have more buyers, yes, we will be able to buy new servers and let the users choose their favorite or take one randomly.
- JackSparrow

Thanks for answering but not sure why you responded twice ;)

Server Error (500) on http://vpn.ccrypto.com/payment/

Sorry, it was due to a website update. it is fixed now.

Bump.
Stay tuned, we will be launching a free website hosting service soon!

i bought a 3 monther i didn't see any of the standard or limited thing you posted a screencap of so i hope i bought the the standard one

Thanks a lot :-)
I will fix that as soon as I can, we reverted the offer but not the screen cap accidentally.

Screen grab updated.
We now have unlimited bandwidth for all users! Hooray!

oh right i didn't even think of looking at the date of the post.

this works good though good service would reccomend.

Ordered for a month to try out. Let's hope it works  8)

Edit: The VPN is very fast and it works great. Thanks for the great service.

Thanks a lot, if you can spread this to friends, that would be great :-)

Okay, I will do that  ;D

its gotten A LOT slower for me as of late.

Are you guys still in business? Paid for a month of service a few days ago and my account is still saying inactive, and no ones responded to my email.

Can anyone confirm these guys are still operating? Website is still up and looking functional.

We are still up and running, and despite our recent influx of custom, our bandwidth graph remains with very little activity. Essentially, this means that the vpn is only really being used for web browsing on a non-regular basis, something that our server can easily cope with. I myself, and the rest of the team have checked personally, and find no speed issues at all. Considering the positive feedback we have got on irc and on the forums we, to put it frankly, have no idea what you are talking about.

So please stop complaining in both the forum and via private message. If you would like further replies from us, do not hesitate to contact us on irc. We will happily guide you through troubleshooting again, provided we are given teamviewer access to test this 'faulty' connection of yours.

Regarding your payment, there is no record of it on our end. Please provide the transaction code.

Bandwidth graph: http://munin.ccrypto.org/graph/ccrypto.org/falkreath.ccrypto.org/if_eth0-day.png
IRC link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ccrypto&uio=d4

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Hi,
I confirm that it was an error from us, sorry.
I have given you +6 months from now. :)

If you have any speed problem, please come chat with us on IRC (http://vpn.ccrypto.org/page/support) to try to fix it.

Thank you for righting this wrong.

Do you plan on adding PPTP? Some mobile devices don't have OpenVPN.

Hi,
I'm sorry but it's not planned and I don't think we'll ever support PPTP, for security reasons.

We now offer a free 3 days trial! just ask here, by email or on IRC to get one.

We also recently fixed multiple issues and have a new affiliate program!