Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security advisories mailing list?

2020-09-18 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 09:24:44AM +1200, openvpn wrote: > I was wondering if there is a mailing list to get notifications about > any security advisories for OpenVPN? > > I know there is a web page https://openvpn.net/security-advisories but > we were hoping to subscribe to a mailing list

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security advisories mailing list?

2020-09-17 Thread openvpn
Hi I was wondering if there is a mailing list to get notifications about any security advisories for OpenVPN? I know there is a web page https://openvpn.net/security-advisories but we were hoping to subscribe to a mailing list for security advisories. Regards Megan __

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-16 Thread Marty G
For "a", one could limit it to the current openvpn version in the script and print a warning about the script being out of date and possibly dangerous if the openvpn version is higher? On 08/16/2017 03:10 AM, open...@keemail.me wrote: Thank you for the feedback! a) You're absolutely right,

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-16 Thread openvpn
Thanks your for the interest. The first tool, to grade the server configuration will not be like the ssh-audit tool you mentioned. It merely parses a local configuration file and informs the user about the security of the setup and further suggestions. The second tool I'm planning to release in

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-16 Thread openvpn
Thank you for the feedback! a) You're absolutely right, once the tool is not maintained anymore, it could give a false sense of security and therefore do more harm than good. I'll do my best to keep it up-to-date. I'm also to open-source it on github, therefore any user suggestions will be tak

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-15 Thread Antonio Quartulli
Hello, On 16/08/17 14:21, open...@keemail.me wrote: > Hello, > > I've developed a Python script to grade OpenVPN server configurations > considering the security. > The tool mainly focuses on: auth, cipher, tls-cipher, prng, tls-auth, > tls-version-min/max, no-replay, no-iv, key-method, ncp-ci

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-15 Thread Илья Шипицин
2017-08-16 11:21 GMT+05:00 : > Hello, > > I've developed a Python script to grade OpenVPN server configurations > considering the security. > The tool mainly focuses on: auth, cipher, tls-cipher, prng, tls-auth, > tls-version-min/max, no-replay, no-iv, key-method, ncp-ciphers, > ncp-disable, tls-c

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN security rating tool

2017-08-15 Thread openvpn
Hello, I've developed a Python script to grade OpenVPN server configurations considering the security. The tool mainly focuses on: auth, cipher, tls-cipher, prng, tls-auth, tls-version-min/max, no-replay, no-iv, key-method, ncp-ciphers, ncp-disable, tls-crypt and key-direction. The result is

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-29 Thread Stephan Alz
What helped was to uninstall the app completely then reinstall it and import the new ovpn files again. Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 at 3:05 PM From: "Steffan Karger" To: "Doug Lytle" Cc: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VP

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-26 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, as far as "admin cannot sniff on vmware or kvm" - well, if the admin controls the hypervisor, he can see all the memory of your VM, and see and control everything it does. If he really wants, he can just flip a few bytes in your virtual /etc/passwd, login as root into your VM, and sniff on t

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-26 Thread Steffan Karger
On 26 Sep 2014 07:37, "Doug Lytle" wrote: > > >> Well my problem with this additional tls-auth method is that the droid version does not support it yet: > > I don't have any problems with tls-auth using Feat-VPN on my Droid. > > http://www.featvpn.com/ Or use the original open source 'OpenVPN for

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-26 Thread Doug Lytle
>> Well my problem with this additional tls-auth method is that the droid >> version does not support it yet: I don't have any problems with tls-auth using Feat-VPN on my Droid. http://www.featvpn.com/ Doug -- Meet PCI

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-26 Thread Stephan Alz
y) regenerating all the certificates (rootca, server, clients) and replacing them on all the devices would help in this case or not.   Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 5:16 AM From: "Steffan Karger" To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn secur

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread Steffan Karger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 24-09-14 11:21, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 24/09/14 10:26, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 24/09/14 10:15, Gert Doering wrote: But to get to the point, that if I setup openvpn on my droplet and let's say an evil admin sniffing my traf

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/14 10:26, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 24/09/14 10:15, Gert Doering wrote: >>> But to get to the point, that if I setup openvpn on my droplet >>> and let's say an evil admin sniffing my traffic for 3 months >>> with tcpdump then decides to de

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/14 10:15, Gert Doering wrote: >> But to get to the point, that if I setup openvpn on my droplet >> and let's say an evil admin sniffing my traffic for 3 months with >> tcpdump then decides to decrypt that traffic what tools does he >> have (if

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread David Sommerseth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/09/14 09:50, Stephan Alz wrote: [...snip...] > There isn't much point of encrypting the droplet's filesystem when > the key can easily be dumped out of memory. > > But to get to the point, that if I setup openvpn on my droplet and > let's say

Re: [Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 09:50:35AM +0200, Stephan Alz wrote: > With the widespread of the cheap vps cloud services lately I wonder what > protection does openvpn offers ... well against the server administrators. If the server admin has root, he can sniff on the tun interface, or grab keys f

[Openvpn-users] Openvpn security on VPS-es

2014-09-24 Thread Stephan Alz
Hello,   With the widespread of the cheap vps cloud services lately I wonder what protection does openvpn offers ... well against the server administrators.   https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-traffic-between-vps-using-openvpn   It's obvious that no virtualization tech

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-21 Thread jack seth
> Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 17:45:34 -0400 > From: "Sumit Dahiya" > Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security > To: > Message-ID: <000901cecb82$367ecdf0$a37c69d0$@eistech.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Th

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-18 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:39:08AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > > On 17/10/13 10:32, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Yes, but if someone can MTM the https ssl, why couldn't they do the > >> same for openvpn's ssl? > > > > Because the IT group resp

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-17 Thread Sumit Dahiya
iFi DNS at Starbucks (or whetever network they are on). -Original Message- From: Davide Brini [mailto:dave...@gmx.com] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 4:54 AM To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:14:39 -0400, &qu

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > On 17/10/13 10:32, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Yes, but if someone can MTM the https ssl, why couldn't they do the >> same for openvpn's ssl? > > Because the IT group responsible for pushing out VPN client onto laptops > wouldn't allow the entire val

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-17 Thread Davide Brini
On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:14:39 -0400, "Sumit Dahiya" wrote: > I agree there is no such thing as 100% security. Therefore, I am trying to > make my VPN users as less vulnerable as possible. > > If I do not use the "redirect gateway" parameter then users would be > relying on target website's SSL i

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 04:32:18PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Yes, but if someone can MTM the https ssl, why couldn't they do the > same for openvpn's ssl? Is there more than the obscurity of using an > unexpected port for the traffic?And, on the flip side, if the user > is really paran

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Sumit Dahiya
ccess if I can beat those hoodlums sniffing over public WiFi. -Original Message- From: Colin Ryan [mailto:col...@caveo.ca] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:47 PM To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security As all security discussions go; yo

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Haar
On 17/10/13 10:32, Les Mikesell wrote: > Yes, but if someone can MTM the https ssl, why couldn't they do the > same for openvpn's ssl? Because the IT group responsible for pushing out VPN client onto laptops wouldn't allow the entire validation component of SSL to be subverted. That is the fundame

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Colin Ryan
On 2013-10-16 7:30 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > On 17/10/13 10:24, Sumit Dahiya wrote: >> MITM attack is exactly why I'd like my users to go through OpenVPN. >> >> So I am hearing MITM (for general internet browsing) becomes more probable >> if my server does not use the directive "redirect-gateway def1

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Haar
On 17/10/13 10:24, Sumit Dahiya wrote: > MITM attack is exactly why I'd like my users to go through OpenVPN. > > So I am hearing MITM (for general internet browsing) becomes more probable > if my server does not use the directive "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp" > vs. if it were using it, correc

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Sumit Dahiya
--- From: Jason Haar [mailto:jason_h...@trimble.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:33 PM To: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security On 17/10/13 02:42, Les Mikesell wrote: > Banking transactions would normally be done over https - which uses > s

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Jason Haar wrote: > On 17/10/13 02:42, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Banking transactions would normally be done over https - which uses >> ssl. Openvpn would add another layer over the open wifi hop, but I'm >> not sure how much that adds to the security. > > For one thi

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Sumit Dahiya
Thank you, this is helpful. -Original Message- From: Jan Just Keijser [mailto:janj...@nikhef.nl] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 7:42 AM To: Sumit Dahiya Cc: openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security Hi, Sumit Dahiya wrote: > >

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Jason Haar
On 17/10/13 02:42, Les Mikesell wrote: > Banking transactions would normally be done over https - which uses > ssl. Openvpn would add another layer over the open wifi hop, but I'm > not sure how much that adds to the security. For one thing it stops MITM attacks. Most people are naive and if they

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > Hi, > >> >> 2. My understanding is if we do NOT use the push "redirect-gateway >> def1 bypass-dhcp" directive in our server.config file then clients’ >> *general* browsing data will not pass through OpenVPN server. Also, if >> I connect to

Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-16 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Hi, Sumit Dahiya wrote: > > Hi All, > > Can you please help with following questions: - > > 1. We have successfully configured an OpenVPN server and have created > cert/key pairs for a handful of clients using OpenSSL. Now, we’d like > to establish secure and encrypted connection between OpenVPN

[Openvpn-users] OpenVPN Security

2013-10-15 Thread Sumit Dahiya
Hi All, Can you please help with following questions: - 1. We have successfully configured an OpenVPN server and have created cert/key pairs for a handful of clients using OpenSSL. Now, we'd like to establish secure and encrypted connection between OpenVPN clients and the server. The questi