VPN recommendations?
Bill Freeman
f at ke1g.mv.com
Tue Jul 3 15:13:34 EDT 2007
Ben Scott writes:
> PPTP might be worth considering if most passwords weren't trivially
> cracked. Given the scenario you give, it's a fair bet the guy's
> password is also his last name, or maybe (if he's clever) his kid's
> birthday.
>
> But along the same lines, he's probably also got enough spyware on
> his laptop to make the firewall superfluous in the first place. So
> PPTP may be an appropriately (in)secure solution for such an
> operation.
A two factor scheme might help in this kind of scenario. It's
supposed to be possible with OpenVPN:
http://www.wikidsystems.net/howtos/openvpn_two_factor
I presume (but don't know) that it's possible with PPTP.
Bill
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