Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 21:13:25 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org> To: "Tolpanov, Dmitry" <tdn@stack.ru> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MPPE and US export restrictions. Message-ID: <200011020513.eA25DQO57527@curve.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <807044A67EA3D211B11D00A024E91A45F2D23C@exch.stack.ru> "from Tolpanov, Dmitry at Nov 2, 2000 11:46:53 am"
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Tolpanov, Dmitry writes: > I'm sorry if my question will be a little bit out of topic, but I think it > is connected with security. > I'm organizing PPTP service and interested in encryption of traffic. As PPTP > server i'm using MPD port (mpd-3.2). I've installed it with MPPC and MPPE > options (all necessary sources are included, as I understand). Now I start > mpd with MPPC-MPPE options enabled. > As PPTP client I have Win NT 4.0 Server. When I try to connect to PPTP > server without enabled Encrypt option (NT) it is succeeded. But when I > enable Encrypt option on NT the connection fails while everything is OK. > > Now I think may be my problems are because of US export restrictions, My NT > and MPD simply do not support MPPE. I live in Russia. Recently US government > canceled this restriction but my be my NT and FreeBSD(4.0) do not know about > this. The export stuff shouldn't be an issue. If you email me an mpd log trace I can tell you why it's failing. Make sure you enable option mpp-e128 if you're requiring "strong" encryption. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Packet Design * http://www.packetdesign.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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