The academic Dr Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University will be in charge of the audits better safetyof the new OpenVPN 2.4.
The VPN project open code, distributed via GitHub, has been developed to support all platforms, from Solaris to Windows, many Linux and BSD distributions including OSX, as well as jailbroken iOS. 
Also used by VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA), which is also the company that decided to fund the security review of the Open Source project. The announcement was made in a press release from the company.
In this publication, CIAb Chen of PIA reports that Dr. Green was funded to review version 2.4, which is currently in beta, and when the version is released in its final form, "it will be compared and evaluated to complete security testing".
Chen reports that PIA has decided to finance it itself review "Due to the integral nature of OpenVPN and the privacy community as a whole in our company philosophy."
The post says the report will be released first to the OpenVPN community before publication and that the PIA will help with any repairs needed to increase security.
