On Wednesday 04 February 2004 6:31 pm, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Mi, den 04.02.2004 schrieb xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxx um 10:04: > > Why, exactly, is PPTP insecure? Do you have any references for this? > > http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptp.html > http://www.schneier.com/pptp.html > http://mopo.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/pptp_mschapv2/ The first two links I could reach... the third seems to be down. These seem to talk about Microsoft's client. What about pptp-linux (http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net) ? > > > If my ISP is running a PPTP server will FreeS/WAN or OpenVPN even work at > > all? > > Why would your ISP run a VPN server? I know that some ISPs, mainly in > Austria use PPTP for internet access, but there it's ok, for you don't > need the privacy you want are expecting from a VPN. This is what I need it for. Internet access. With that, I shouldn't have to care too much about privacy, since it is only to the ISP. Anything else I want to do that I need privacy for I would use SSL, SSH, or Cisco's VPN with windows, and then FreeS/WAN for Linux. > > Windows 2000 and XP can handle IPsec, so you can connect with FreeS/WAN. > OpenVPN is also available for Windoze 2k/XK, but not for Win9x. > > So the only situation PPTP really is needed (if it is needed at all) are > Win98 computers. > > Christoph > > P.S.: > FreeS/Wan RPMs are available at the http://freeswan.org, > FreeS/WAN w. x509 patch is at http://www.freeswan.ca (they have tarballs > but a specfile is included), > For SuperFreeS/WAN there are source RPMs at > http://tis.foobar.fi/software/ > OpenVPM for FC1 can be found in Dag Wieers repo.
