From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 21 17:30:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.whistle.com (gatekeeper.whistle.com [207.76.204.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0C1E37B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com (bubba.whistle.com [207.76.205.7]) by gatekeeper.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17083; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie@whistle.com) Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA63947; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200008220030.RAA63947@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: PPTP In-Reply-To: from Jim Durham at "Aug 19, 2000 03:57:08 am" To: Jim Durham Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:30:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jim Durham writes: > Does anyone have any advice regarding security problems caused by > PPTP using PopTop on FreeBSD? > > We'd like to implement this, but I'm a little nervous about it, > having heard that the cypher has been cracked. Is this true? > How about root access from buffer overflows, etc? FYI- Another alternative to PopTop is the net/mpd-netgraph port. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message