RE: [in] VPN protocols

From: Curt Purdy (purdy_at_tecman.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    To: "'Dan Tesch'" <dan.tesch@comcast.net>, "'Pen Test'" <pen-test@securityfocus.com>
    Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 14:05:07 -0600
    
    

    Dan Tesch wrote:
    > I am not very up on VPN protocols, I am testing a network
    > that has an edge router which has several site-to-site VPN's
    > set up and several clients connecting to it via MS PPTP client.
    <snip>

    You did not mention the site-to-site vpn vendor, but sounds like ipsec to
    me. Your easiest shot at compromise is with PPTP. It was an insecure
    format from the beginning. It took cisco to show Microsoft how to do VPN.

    Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, CNE, MCSE+I, CCDA
    Information Security Engineer
    DP Solutions

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    If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked.
    What's more, you deserve to be hacked.
    -- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke


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