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From: Tom Rymes <tom@rymes.net>
To: development@lists.ipfire.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pptp: Update to 1.10.0
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2021 08:20:21 -0500
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> On Feb 5, 2021, at 6:15 AM, Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org> wr=
ote:
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> Hello,
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>> On 4 Feb 2021, at 22:58, Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Tom,
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>> On 04/02/2021 19:10, Tom Rymes wrote:
>>> Isn=E2=80=99t PPTP heavily deprecated, or is that just when used with cer=
tain encryption methods?
>> It may be, I don't know for sure. However, while it is still in IPFire I t=
hink it is better to have the latest version from 2018 rather than the one fr=
om 2008.
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> Yes, in terms of bugs in the implementation it is.
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> PPTP is a universal tunnelling protocol (short for point-to-point tunneling=
 protocol) and it can be used for VPNs. However it is very old and the specif=
ied cryptography is very outdated. In IPFire we only use it to connect to som=
e DSL providers which use it on the Internet link. They do not use any encryp=
tion and use weak authentication to identify the subscriber.
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> -Michael

Thanks, Michael. I have used PPP for DSL links before, but didn=E2=80=99t rea=
lize that some required PPTP.

Tom

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