On Tuesday 12 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Your statement "it seems like running SSH inside a VPN is better for > security than running SSH on a non-standard port" is non-sensical. > From a security and encryption perspective, ssh and OpenVPN are > exactly the same thing - stuff wrapped in an encryption layer provided > by ssl, complete with exactly the same key setup should you choose to > use that route.
Perhaps confusingly, ssh itself can be used to create openVPN-like VPNs (actually, much simpler), using the -w option and a couple of tun (or tap) interfaces on the connected computers. -- [email protected] mailing list
