[colug-432] VPN types

[andrej stefanovski]

I've used Tunnelblick and when OS X 10.10 had issues I purchased Viscosity ($10, well worth it). I've worked with all th VPN types and definitely prefer OpenVPN for stability/reliability, and from all I've read it's superior authentication and overall security. There's a free trial available which I used before I bought it and it's working well w/ OS X 10.11


Viscosity: 


https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/










​andrej


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On Wednesday, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Mike Plemmons <mikeplemmons at gmail.com>, wrote:



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.

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> 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/


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

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