From owner-freebsd-security Mon Aug 21 19:53:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cage.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C41D37B42C for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:53:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp (chimp [192.168.0.2]) by cage.simianscience.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17637; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:53:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000821224628.00b05ad0@mail.sentex.net> X-Sender: mdtancsa@mail.sentex.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:47:12 -0400 To: Fernando Schapachnik , durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham) From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: PPTP Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200008202049.RAA20400@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 05:49 PM 8/20/2000 -0300, Fernando Schapachnik wrote: >En un mensaje anterior, Jim Durham escribi=F3: > > 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? > >So it seems. Search bugtraq on www.securityfocus.com for PPTP and you will >find the relevant articles. I am under the impression that the version in the ports, does not do data=20 encryption.... Only at the authentication phase. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Network Administration, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message