On 05/27/2013 02:36 AM, Mick wrote: > On Monday 27 May 2013 02:43:08 walt wrote: >> This company: >> >> https://proxpn.com >> >> sponsors my all-time-favorite podcast, which I heartily commend to you: >> >> http://twit.tv/show/security-now >> (the audio podcast is what I suggest, as the video adds very little) >> >> Anyway, you can get a free account from proxpn.com by giving them a >> working email address (no credit card or any other personal info). >> >> Here is what I used to get it working on gentoo: >> >> net-misc/networkmanager >> net-misc/networkmanager-pptp >> >> and I had to add these to my kernel config: >> >> CONFIG_PPP >> CONFIG_PPP_MPPE >> CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC >> >> The name of the server to give networkmanager is pptp.proxpn.com >> >> I confess I have no idea how to do all of this without networkmanager, >> but I'd like to hear from you networking nerds out there who know more >> about this stuff than I do. > > Hi Walt, > > PPPTP uses a rather weak proprietary RC4 based encryption for tunnels in > old(er) MSWindows machines. At least make sure that it uses 128bit key > encryption, or better still drop this completely in favour of the OpenVPN > method which uses SSL certificates. > > PS. It would be better if these guys offered a more serious VPN > implementation, like IPSec VPN (with either IKEv1 or IKEv2). If they won't, I > > would suggest you look for a provider that does.
They do offer openvpn, but only the windows version has it. I've opened a support ticket asking them if/how I can use openvpn instead. I know it's possible but not how to do it. Yet :) Their windows vpn client is linked against openvpn and openssl, so I figure linux support will be clarified eventually. If everyone here would email them and offer to buy the pay version, but only after the linux openvpn support is made official... ;) > PPS. I see they are peddling privacy from governments' snooping efforts which > are fast being enshrined in law around the world, but can you really trust > them? What happens when the boys in black/blue knock on their door and ask > to > have access to their servers? Heck, we all saw what happened with Kim Dotcom > in New Zealand, when the US media complex decided he was taking too big a > slice of their profits. Hosting servers in a foreign jurisdiction offers no > insurance, when money interests are more powerful than governments. I've always suspected that those boys in black/blue own every tor exit node out there, why not every vpn solution too?
