[colug-432] VPN types

[Mike Plemmons]

On Dec 16, 2015 3:56 PM, "Rick Hornsby" <richardjhornsby at gmail.com> wrote:
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> There are multiple VPN types out there - PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, OpenVPN (and
subtypes UDP, TCP, "Proxy", and IPSec).  I have an L2TP VPN server at home
here in Kansas City, which I when I'm not at home.  While I'm at work,
however, I still use a VPN on my personal laptop that's connected to the
(employee permitted) wifi.  For that, a StrongVPN location in Chicago works
out better and is faster.
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> I'm using a VPN because the only WiFi I trust is my wifi at home.
Everything else I treat as potentially hostile.  Secondly, my personal
traffic is none of my employer's (or really, the network people's) business.
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> >From what I've read:
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> * Stop using PPTP, it is based on very old Windows-era stuff that's weak
and cryptographically broken
> * OpenVPN is the new hotness, and uses some kind of SSL tunneling.  I
don't understand the subtypes or why one subtype is better than the other.
>
> One of the downsides with OpenVPN is that it requires the StrongVPN
client.  There's no native support for OpenVPN in OS X.

This may work.  https://tunnelblick.net/

>
> Otherwise, I don't really understand the different types or subtypes or
why I would choose one over the other?
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