OpenVPN Support Forum

Hello openVPN community,

Long story short, i use openvpn & SSL to connect to a proxy server, so that I can play Games online, through these servers, as they give me a substantially better ping.

I installed openVPN a while back, I think i installed the pre-compiled version. I don't remember setting up anything advanced, or dealing with certificates and all that Jazz. Everything worked perfectly until a month or so ago. Now whenever I try to connect to these remote proxy servers (Hide my ass Proxy servers, www.hidemyass.com), i get a certificate verification error. I've tried reinstalling openVPN a couple of times to no avail. Any help would be appreciated, keep in mind i've never really compiled files for openvpn before and don't really get that part. keep in mind i'm somewhat of a noob in that sense.

Thanks all, good day:)!

Thu May 29 00:21:14 2014 Warning: cannot open --log file: C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\log\UK.London_LOC1S6.UDP.log: Access is denied. (errno=5)
Thu May 29 00:21:14 2014 OpenVPN 2.3.4 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [PKCS11] [IPv6] built on May 2 2014
Thu May 29 00:21:14 2014 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014, LZO 2.05
Thu May 29 00:21:14 2014 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25357
Thu May 29 00:21:14 2014 Need hold release from management interface, waiting...
Thu May 29 00:21:15 2014 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25357
Thu May 29 00:21:15 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state on'
Thu May 29 00:21:15 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log all on'
Thu May 29 00:21:15 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold off'
Thu May 29 00:21:15 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release'
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'username "Auth" "sarahhussz"'
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'password [...]'
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]77.75.123.183:53
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312078,WAIT,,,
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312078,AUTH,,,
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]77.75.123.183:53, sid=f472835f a5351b91
Thu May 29 00:21:18 2014 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 VERIFY ERROR: depth=1, error=self signed certificate in certificate chain: C=GB, ST=London, L=London, O=Privax Ltd, OU=HMA Pro VPN, CN=hidemyass.com, name=HMA, emailAddress=info@privax.com
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 TLS_ERROR: BIO read tls_read_plaintext error: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 TLS Error: TLS object -> incoming plaintext read error
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312079,RECONNECTING,tls-error,,
Thu May 29 00:21:19 2014 Restart pause, 2 second(s)
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]77.75.123.183:53
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312081,WAIT,,,
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312081,AUTH,,,
Thu May 29 00:21:21 2014 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]77.75.123.183:53, sid=746ea30d 655664e1
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 VERIFY ERROR: depth=1, error=self signed certificate in certificate chain: C=GB, ST=London, L=London, O=Privax Ltd, OU=HMA Pro VPN, CN=hidemyass.com, name=HMA, emailAddress=info@privax.com
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 TLS_ERROR: BIO read tls_read_plaintext error: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 TLS Error: TLS object -> incoming plaintext read error
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 SIGUSR1[soft,tls-error] received, process restarting
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312082,RECONNECTING,tls-error,,
Thu May 29 00:21:22 2014 Restart pause, 2 second(s)
Thu May 29 00:21:24 2014 Socket Buffers: R=[8192->8192] S=[8192->8192]
Thu May 29 00:21:24 2014 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Thu May 29 00:21:24 2014 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]77.75.123.183:53
Thu May 29 00:21:24 2014 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1401312084,WAIT,,,

Hi there. I just had the exact same issue today with my VPN connection using Hide My Ass. Exact same error message. I've tried many things to solve it and found the solution eventually.
-I was setting up my connection on a Linux Mint 15 system. The VPN was working fine untill last month. Then today I had to connect and Baammm Time Out every time!!
-I tried to log from a Windows client and it worked straight away, so my account wasn't the cause
-I tried various method, rebooting (solved some time out issues in the past), reinstalling openvpn and curl, trying to find updated certificates. None worked, untill I found the LATEST certificates lost somewhere on HMA website. These guys are definitely NOT Linux gurus... The certificates are located there : http://zdcdn.hidemyass.com/other/linux.zip
-Now for a bit of trolling... Warning messages in the log file are warnings, not Errors, so they usually not stop the connection attempt... Otherwise they would cause an Error and then they would be called Error messages... Duuuhhh

Hope this will help. It is quite unfortunate that HMA team takes so little time to cleanup their Wiki and Website so that users could point directly to the latest certificates and list of acces points. I've had the same issue many times in the past...