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On 05/27/2013 02:36 AM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Monday 27 May 2013 02:43:08 walt wrote: |
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>> This company: |
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>> https://proxpn.com |
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>> sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you: |
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>> http://twit.tv/show/security-now |
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>> (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little) |
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>> Anyway, you can get a free account from proxpn.com by giving them a |
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>> working email address (no credit card or any other personal info). |
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>> Here is what I used to get it working on gentoo: |
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>> net-misc/networkmanager |
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>> net-misc/networkmanager-pptp |
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>> and I had to add these to my kernel config: |
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>> CONFIG_PPP |
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>> CONFIG_PPP_MPPE |
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>> CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC |
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>> The name of the server to give networkmanager is pptp.proxpn.com |
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>> I confess I have no idea how to do all of this without networkmanager, |
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>> but I'd like to hear from you networking nerds out there who know more |
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>> about this stuff than I do. |
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> Hi Walt, |
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> PPPTP uses a rather weak proprietary RC4 based encryption for tunnels in |
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> old(er) MSWindows machines. At least make sure that it uses 128bit key |
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> encryption, or better still drop this completely in favour of the OpenVPN |
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> method which uses SSL certificates. |
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> PS. It would be better if these guys offered a more serious VPN |
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> implementation, like IPSec VPN (with either IKEv1 or IKEv2). If they won't, I |
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> would suggest you look for a provider that does. |
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They do offer openvpn, but only the windows version has it. I've opened a |
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support ticket asking them if/how I can use openvpn instead. I know it's |
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possible but not how to do it. Yet :) |
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Their windows vpn client is linked against openvpn and openssl, so I figure |
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linux support will be clarified eventually. |
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If everyone here would email them and offer to buy the pay version, but only |
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after the linux openvpn support is made official... ;) |
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> PPS. I see they are peddling privacy from governments' snooping efforts which |
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> are fast being enshrined in law around the world, but can you really trust |
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> them? What happens when the boys in black/blue knock on their door and ask to |
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> have access to their servers? Heck, we all saw what happened with Kim Dotcom |
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> in New Zealand, when the US media complex decided he was taking too big a |
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> slice of their profits. Hosting servers in a foreign jurisdiction offers no |
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> insurance, when money interests are more powerful than governments. |
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I've always suspected that those boys in black/blue own every tor exit node |
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out there, why not every vpn solution too? |
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