Kryptnet Installation on Mac OS X

To use Kryptnet on Mac OS X, you will need to install Tunnelblick, the OpenVPN client for OS X, then install our VPN configuration files.

Click here to visit the Tunnelblick home page and download the application.

To install Tunnelblick, download the latest disk image from the featured downloads section on the main project page. Double-click it and drag the Tunnelblick.app icon to the shortcut to the Applications folder, or to any other location on your local hard disk. You can find more detailed instructions at the Tunnelblick WIKI.

Start Tunnelblick and enter your password if asked. Select the option to install and edit sample configuration files, which will create the directory you need to store the Kryptnet configuration files. Close the openvpn.conf file that opens at the end of this step, then quit Tunnelblick by clicking on the Tunnelblick icon at the top-right of your screen.

Download the Kryptnet OpenVPN configuration files from this link. Open the downloaded zip files and copy the contents (not the zip file itself) in the directory ~/Library/openvpn (where ~ is your home directory).

Start Tunnelblick from the Applications folder and click on the Tunnelblick icon at the top-right of your screen. Choose which service you wish to connect to; either:

• kryptnet-eu to connect through one of our servers located in Europe, which will make all your browsing look like it is coming from a machine based in Europe; or
• Ckryptnet-us to connect through one of our servers located in the U.S.A. This will make it look as if you are browsing from a machine located in the U.S.A.

If asked, you may need to enter your user password again to allow Tunnelblick to make configuration changes.

You should then be asked for your Kryptnet username and password, which you chose when you signed up for the service. Enter these and click OK to start the connection.

The Tunnelblick icon at the top-right of your screen will then start blinking to indicate that the connection is opening. When successfully connected, part of the icon will become clear.

	Tunnelblick not connected.
	Tunnelblick connected.

Please note that, to improve the speed and reliability of your connection, we have set the default connections to use the UDP protocol. This means that your ISP will be able to tell that you are using a VPN connection, but not what you are sending or receiving over it. We have included alternative configuration files that will disguise your VPN connection as normal encrypted web surfing. These are named kryptnet-us.tcp and kryptnet-eu.tcp - you can use these the same way as normal, but be aware that your connection speed may be slower.

If you have followed the instructions above, you should now be connected to Kryptnet and can start using the internet anonymously, securely and privately.

To confirm that Kryptnet is doing its job, we recommend you visit a site such as whatismyip.com, where you should see Kryptnet's IP address instead of your own.