VPN recommendations?

klussier at comcast.net klussier at comcast.net
Sat Jun 30 15:42:14 EDT 2007


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>
> On Jun 28, 2007, at 18:22, Ben Scott wrote:
> 
> >   Unfortunately, PPTP is somewhat suspect when it comes to the actual
> > security of the protocol.
> 
> IIRC there was a flaw in Microsoft's md4 implementation and the  
> protocol is fine.  Data to the contrary appreciated. :)

There is no data to the contrary. Bruce Shcneier and Dr. Mudge did a cryptoanalysis a long time ago and pointed out several flaws in PPTP: http://www.schneier.com/paper-pptpv2.html

FYI,
Kenny


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