At 6:52 PM +0200 4/30/02, Tim van Erven wrote: >On Tue, Apr 30, 2002 at 10:54:24AM -0400, "Derek J. Balling" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Does anyone have a nice simple HOWTO on how to add encryption to the >> pptpd daemon, so that windows VPN users can connect using encryption? > >As a side note: have you considered that using the encryption in pptp >forces you to store userpasswords in cleartext? For my ISP [1] that was >a reason not to use pptp's encryption, especially since MS-CHAPv2 >contains known security holes [2].
Yes, unfortunately, for our predominant workstation (Win98), M$'s PPTP client is ubiquitous and other solutions are not necessarily so commonly deployed. D (who would LOVE to move to a _MORE_ secure solution, but is content, for now, to only allow himself and one other to even have accounts on the box with the cleartext passwds) -- +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "Thou art the ruins of the noblest man | | Derek J. Balling | That ever lived in the tide of times. | | | Woe to the hand that shed this costly | | | blood" - Julius Caesar Act 3, Scene 1 | +---------------------+-----------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
