Wi-Free provides an encryption option

Our VPN tunnel service with the possibility of connection encryption

Not all the data which you transmit into the global network is encrypted, as for example, when you use websites over HTTPS protocol (in a browser a website address starts with https://). Receiving and sending of mail over POP3 and SMTP protocols, usage of FTP, messengers, visiting of websites, which do not use HTTPS protocol, and so on is not safe, if your traffic is not encrypted. Wi-Free VPN software makes work in the Internet safe.

Your passwords, personal correspondence, profiles, commercial information are not protected from third parties access, if you do not use encryption means. Your Internet service provider, local network or access point administrator and even an ordinary user of a Wi-Fi access point, to which you are connected, can get your transmitted data and do anything with it.

We do not assert that you can not do without encryption. Of course you can, and maybe in 95% of cases nothing will happen to your personal information, but users, who suffered from negligent attitude to their network connection, do not think so anymore and surely prefer to stay protected now.

Get from us a VPN account with encryption and be safe.

Our VPN tutorial, how to turn on connection encryption

Until August 20, 2010 we provide free encryption for all Premium Users, i.e. for those who are now using our ordinary tunnels for money. After this date you can purchase new packages with an additional encryption option. But now we offer you to make sure that our VPN connection is free.

In order to turn on the encryption mode, in Wi-Free enter Preferences, than go to Other and tick "Encrypt transmitted data". As you can see, this is very easy. Get Secure VPN without multipage manuals and diagrams as in OpenVPN. See the picture below:

You can make VPN setting up if you have our Premium account. We remind you, that until August 20, 2010 you can use encryption for free.

If you use our tunnels only for getting free internet access in networks, where data transmission over alternative protocols is allowed (hotels, airports, restaurants), then you do not necessarily need to use encryption. We think that in this case encryption can not give you high speed or the possibility of work in new networks.

Who can intercept my data, when I use encryption?

That is a good question, which is almost never discussed. VPN providers do not say anything about safety from their side. But they have their own internet service provider (Datacentre) and their network administrator. It is impossible to endlessly transfer encrypted data to nodes, which accept them only when they are not encrypted. At some point data should be decrypted and sent to the receiver in the open state. In this case you can rely only on our reputation, because it is inherently impossible to provide other technical guarantees in this matter.

MMC Networks Limited is different from the majority of companies, which provide VPN accounts. Often this is done even not by registered companies, but by private associations of webmasters and administrators, who provide to users software, which was developed by third parties, and answers their purposes to the minimum. Our company is registered in the offshore zone in Gibraltar. This jurisdiction is the most difficult to access to influence company's operation. The largest SSL EV certificates provider VeriSign, Inc. proves, that "MMC Networks Limited has been verified as the owner or operator of the Web site located at secure.wi-free.com. Official records confirm that MMC Networks Limited is a valid business". Wi-Free successfully works in the market thanks to our highly qualified programmers, administrators, webmasters and the client support service. No VPN provider can transmit data over four different protocols ICMP, TCP/IP, UDP, DNS. Wi-Free VPN service is able to bypass any filters and even works in networks where payment is required, without it. Use our reliable VPN tunnel and get your content in any place.

Today WiFi security is as low as never before. Our VPN WiFi will protect your data.

Probably, the best example of nonobservance of security in data transfer is connection to the Internet with the help of WiFi, particularly through public hotspots during transmission of data without additional encryption means. Why?

At present the following algorithms are used for safety in WiFi networks: WEP, WPA, WPA2. Here we should note only that none of these algorithms secures protection of your data, and they were all hacked as of July, 2010. Below are descriptions of these algorithms and their weaknesses.

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) algorithm, which provides safety of Wi-Fi networks, has been recognized as weak and then outdated. Nonetheless this is the most popular encryption standard. New hotspots support more protected algorithms WPA and WPA2, but old hotspots can not use them. Hacking of WEP can be performed in several minutes and this means that your confidentiality and protection of transmitted data will be violated.

In 2009 a successful attack on the algorithm WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was demonstrated. In the result of an attack one could trap data without limitations from the hotspot to the client machine, and vice versa. This attack takes at most 1 minute. It should be pointed out that WPA connections, which use a more protected key encryption standard AES, are not exposed to attacks.

Recently, on July 23, 2010 the information was published about brittleness of Hole196 in the WPA2 protocol. Using this brittleness, an authorized in the networks malevolent user can decrypt data of other users with the help of his privacy key. At that no cracking of the key or brutforce is required.