Thing is thought that using MPPE will make your connection secured is
the security problem that they refer to at the end the crap security in the
windows sam files ?
But if the clients are windows thats something that you will be used to
though ?
Is the advantage then with ipsec that the keys are encrypted using industry
standard symetric encryption with a passphrase ?
--B
On Thursday 12 December 2002 04:09, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Shirley (diamond at skynet.ie):
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:21:41PM +0000, Ronan Waide wrote:
> >> Also, there's the PPTP stuff, which is Windows' "native" VPN tool. I
> >> believe PoPToP is the name of the Linux server implementation.
> >
> > Not highly regarded (read: insecure), so don't use for important
> > stuff.
>> I'm glad you said that, rather than me. When I said pretty much the
> exact same thing on the Silicon Valley Linux User Group's mailing list,
> I got flamed up one side and down the other as simultaneously
> "ignorant", "wrong", and "elitist". But here's some ammunition:
>http://www.counterpane.com/pptp.html
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