On Thursday 19 May 2005 03:31, James Hiscock wrote: > > Is it possible to securely access the nfs sharea, and smb shares on the > > bsd machine, or the other linux desktops like I am on teh LAN. Both ends > > use dynamic IP's, so it also has to be compatible with dyndns or > > something like that to find them. > > Maybe setup a VPN using OpenVPN? Not sure how secure it is, but I > suspect you'd be able to wrap it in an ssh tunnel...
OpenVPN already uses an SSL layer to encrypt the connection and uses public/private key authentication. The only downside, in my opinion, is that the packages go between user and kernel space a few times (encryption is done in userspace, but the programs think they talk to a 'real' network interface) But it's far more simple to setup then OpenSwan or similar programs. > ...but then, I've never done (or had a need to do anything like) this > myself, so I'm might be completely crazy... I use it to connect to my computer when I'm visiting my parents (they live in a different country) and to encrypt my wireless connection at home. Call me paranoid if you like, email goes plain-text until it gets collected by the mailserver at home :) Cheers, Joost -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
