Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A free VPN server

[Mick]

On Monday 27 May 2013 02:43:08 walt wrote:
> This company:
>
> https://proxpn.com
>
> sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you:
>
> http://twit.tv/show/security-now
> (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little)
>
> Anyway, you can get a free account from proxpn.com by giving them a
> working email address (no credit card or any other personal info).
>
> Here is what I used to get it working on gentoo:
>
> net-misc/networkmanager
> net-misc/networkmanager-pptp
>
> and I had to add these to my kernel config:
>
> CONFIG_PPP
> CONFIG_PPP_MPPE
> CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC
>
> The name of the server to give networkmanager is pptp.proxpn.com
>
> I confess I have no idea how to do all of this without networkmanager,
> but I'd like to hear from you networking nerds out there who know more
> about this stuff than I do.

Hi Walt,

PPPTP uses a rather weak proprietary RC4 based encryption for tunnels in 
old(er) MSWindows machines.  At least make sure that it uses 128bit key 
encryption, or better still drop this completely in favour of the OpenVPN 
method which uses SSL certificates.


PS. It would be better if these guys offered a more serious VPN 
implementation, like IPSec VPN (with either IKEv1 or IKEv2). If they won't, I  
would suggest you look for a provider that does.

PPS. I see they are peddling privacy from governments' snooping efforts which 
are fast being enshrined in law around the world, but can you really trust 
them?  What happens when the boys in black/blue knock on their door and ask to 
have access to their servers?  Heck, we all saw what happened with Kim Dotcom 
in New Zealand, when the US media complex decided he was taking too big a 
slice of their profits.  Hosting servers in a foreign jurisdiction offers no 
insurance, when money interests are more powerful than governments.

-- 
Regards,
Mick