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OpenVPN 2.0 released!

Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

At Freelock Computing, we’ve been using OpenVPN regularly for the last year and a half, both in house and at client sites, and we’re huge fans. It’s easy to administer, has a variety of security options, and no vulnerabilities have been found to date. It’s fast, extremely flexible, and can be set up in site-to-site or road warrior configurations.

Version 2.0 was released on Sunday, after a year or so of being in beta. Version 2.0 makes it possible to tunnel an unlimited number of connections through a single UDP or TCP port–in previous versions, you had to set up one port per connection. OpenVPN Download.

There’s a task bar manager for Windows, which makes it super simple to connect and disconnect to pre-configured remote machines. For hints installing in Windows so a non Administrator can start and stop the tunnel, see this page.

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Make sure your VPN is secure…

Tuesday, December 21st, 2004

There is now a tool that can easily crack PPTP authentication, which is what is used in the basic Virtual Private Networking standard included in Windows. Because of its wide deployment, PPTP is perhaps the easiest type of VPN to deploy–but it should no longer be considered secure. Read more at ZDNet.com: George Ou » PPTP VPN authentication protocol proven very susceptible to attack.

At Freelock Computing, we recommend and deploy OpenVPN for secure, cross-platform, relatively easy to administer private networks.

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Remote Access Resources

Monday, May 24th, 2004

Software

  • Pop-before-SMTP, authentication for outgoing email
  • Helix, an open source media player and server from Real Networks
  • OpenSSH, Secure Shell client and server
  • PuTTY, open source Windows SSH client
  • Filezilla, SFTP client for Windows
  • PCAnywhere, commercial remote desktop software for Windows
  • GoToMyPC, commercial remote desktop software for Windows
  • VNC, open source cross platform remote desktop software
  • TightVNC, open source extended version of VNC
  • PopTOP, open source PPTP server for Linux
  • Pptpclient, open source PPTP client for Linux
  • OpenVPN, open source SSL-based VPN
  • FreeS/WAN, open source IPSec implementation
  • Smoothwall Firewall

Web Sites

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Introduction article about OpenVPN

Tuesday, January 27th, 2004

OS News has a nice story about OpenVPN.

http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5803

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