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Date:      Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:44:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:      mi@aldan.algebra.com
To:        kris@obsecurity.org
Cc:        brian@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ccp.c ccp.h command.c deflate.c fsm.c         fsm.h ip.c mppe.c ppp.8 pred.c
Message-ID:  <200106181644.f5IGig097507@misha.privatelabs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010618093100.D9834@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 18 Jun, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 11:24:10AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>> >   Log:
>> >   Add support for stateful MPPE (microsoft encryption) providing
>> >   encryption compatibility with Windows 2000.  Stateful encryption
>> >   uses less CPU but is bad on lossy transports.
>> 
>> So, I suppose, I'll now be able to avoid using SSH and use PPP
>> with encryption over a device like host:port/tcp directly, without
>> the
>> 	set login "!ssh tunnel@host"
>> 
>> Great! Thanks,
> 
> Only if you trust microsoft not to have screwed up the crypto, like
> they usually do with their protocols.

Well, I'm only planning to use the FreeBSD implementation of the
protocol, which, was done from scratch and audited. Or was it not?

	-mi




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