On 11 Nov 2002 at 20:23, Paul Emerson wrote:

> GTA's firewalls support PPTP, that is to say allow it to work
> through the firewall.  However the firewall doesn't directly support
> PPTP. The encryption in PPTP isn't that robust, nor is PPTP that
> safe.
> 
> The firewall does have the full IETF full strength encryption 
> algorithms (DES, 3DES, AES, Blowfish, Twofish, CAST128) as part of
> the IPSec VPN facility.
> 
> Paul
> 

Thanks, paul.

A company we are dealing with sell SnapGear 
firewall/routers as part
of  their services; they are not an IT services company 
but provide a
service/product for the travel industry.  The reason is that 
they use
PPTP encryption on their NT servers and do not want to 
have users that
connect to their server to install VPN services on their 
workstations
but just have all encryption occur at the firewall.

I had heard that PPTP was not that safe but could only 
find very old
documents on this, yet I think MS would have cleaned up 
the protocol.
Can any one point me to some documents that deal with 
security issues
in PPTP?

cheers,

adrian

> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >A question on PPTP support.
> >Are any of the GTA products able to encrypt using
> >PPTP?
> >
> >cheers,
> >
> >adrian
> >
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