Academic Dr Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University will be responsible for the security audits of the new OpenVPN 2.4.
The open source VPN project, distributed via GitHub, has been developed to support all platforms, from Solaris to Windows, many Linux and BSD distributions including OSX, and even jailbroken iOS. 
It is also used by VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA), which is the company that decided to fund the security review of the Open Source project. The announcement was made in a publication by the company.
In this post, PIA's Caleb Chen reports that Dr. Green was funded to review version 2.4, which is currently in beta form, and when the version is released in its final form, it "will be compared and evaluated for completion of the security audit."
Chen says that PIA decided to fund the review itself “due to the integral nature of OpenVPN and the privacy community as a whole to our company philosophy.”
The post states that the report will be made available to the OpenVPN community first, before being published, and that PIA will assist with any fixes needed to increase security.
