[pptp-server] Forcing encryption (was: Optimizing pppd for PPTP)

[Nate Carlson]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Martin Mueller wrote:

> Hi all and thanks for your work,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 07:21:58AM -0400, Patrick Reid wrote:
> > 
> > 1) Require 128-bit, stateless encryption on the server side
> > 	I can refuse 40-bit encryption, but I can't keep someone from connecting
> > with no encryption or in stateful mode (i.e. only one key). I know it is
> > possible to force my clients to only use strong encryption, but this doesn't
> > keep people from trying to exploit the PPTP security issues for Microsoft's
> > implementation.
> 
> Ok, here are the patches to pppd-2.3.11 to require encryption. The new
> options are "require-mppe" and "require-mppe-stateless". You must first
> aply the MPPE patches for pppd and then this one.
> 
> bye
>    MM
> 

THANK YOU! We've been waiting for this forever.  Rebuilding pppd rpm's and
testing as we speak...   :)

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