R6700v2 Firmware: VPN Service uses MD5 but newest standards call for SHA256

Also have an R6700v2, gotten on the cheaps from Amazon. And it's pretty obvious why it's on the cheaps: It's a cost-reduced version of the R6700. Further, it appears that Netgear has been making it, well, difficult for the open-source community to come up with a DD-WRT or similar firmware load.

So, I am using the VPN service, following the instructions in the router, for my smart phone. And, when going on travel, given the insecure environments found in airports and the like, VPN is where I want to be. Especially on my Android phone, not to mention my portable computer. In fact, cost-reduced or not, one of the major reasons I bought this router is that it came with a VPN server built-in.

So, it's not a happy place that every time I fire up OpenVPN Connect (the suggested VPN client software for Android), I get a warning message:

"TLS: received certificate signed with MD5. Please inform your admin to upgrade to a stronger algorithm. Support for MD5 will be dropped at the end of Apr 2018."

It's now late January. I was hoping that the latest security release for the R6700v2 would fix this: No luck.

At the rate things are going for the purposes of VPN this router officially becomes a brick on 30 APR 2018. I understand planned obsolesence, but this is rediculous: I will have had the router for less five months when it bricks for VPN purposes.

Hey, Negear! Update your VPN server firmware! It is not rocket science!

KBeck