[pptp-server] 56-bit encryption

[Jerry Vonau]

Don:

Yes I agree, but thanks for the info anyway. I was asking because I setup 
one place with the pptp client, but the admin of the server that it connnects
to are just running 56-bit (no 40-bit) and have no clue what I'm talking 
about when I suggest 128-bit. (Yes, this worries me....) 
Is running the update and rebooting that hard, NO.. 
but that is beyond my control. Thanks for your input.

Jerry

"Kinzer, Don" wrote:
> 
> 56-bit?  That's not much of an improvement over 40-bit.  Is there a reason
> to not go all the way to 128-bit?
> 
> You can find patches here http://www.advancevpn.com/public/ for the latter.
> There are two pieces required - one adds MPPE to the kernel
> (linux-2.4.4-openssl-0.9.6a-mppe-patch.gz) the other adds support to PPP
> (ppp-2.4.1-openssl-0.9.6-mppe-patch.gz).
> 
> Since I am using the 2.4.13 kernel, I applied the kernel patches (which are
> for 2.4.4, obviously) by hand.  Note that these patches require OpenSSL
> which is part of the RedHat 7.1 distribution.  If you don't have OpenSSL,
> you can get it here: http://www.openssl.org/.
> 
> Don Kinzer
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerry Vonau [mailto:jvonau at home.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:34 PM
> To: pptp-server at lists.schulte.org
> Subject: [pptp-server] 56-bit encryption
> 
> Hey All:
> 
> Anybody have a clue on what is required to get it going?
> Ok, don't tell me let me guess, a new patch for pppd, right?
> Anybody working on such an animal?
> 
> Jerry Vonau
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