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<a href="https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/">https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/</a><br>
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<span class="mailbox-inline-edit">​</span><div class="mailbox_signature" style="display: block;">andrej<div><br></div>
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<span id="orc-full-body-initial-text" style="display: inline;"><br>On Wednesday, Dec 16, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Mike Plemmons <<a href="mailto:mikeplemmons@gmail.com" target="_blank">mikeplemmons@gmail.com</a>>, wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote"><div>
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On Dec 16, 2015 3:56 PM, "Rick Hornsby" <<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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> >From what I've read:<br>
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> * Stop using PPTP, it is based on very old Windows-era stuff that's weak and cryptographically broken<br>
> * 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.<br>
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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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">This may work. <a href="https://tunnelblick.net/">https://tunnelblick.net/</a><br></p>
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> Otherwise, I don't really understand the different types or subtypes or why I would choose one over the other?<br>
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