[pptp-server] MPPE 128 Bit Compression?? What happen to Encryption???

[Steve Langasek]

George,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 08:04:05AM +1100, George Vieira wrote:

> I finally got my new kernel (old now after so long trying to get it working)
> to compile and boot with MPPE built in.
> My problem is that I still get it coming up as MPPE 128 bit Compression and
> not Encryption...

> Why is this happening, what have I configured wrongly?

MPPE is by definition an encryption method, but when it hooks into the 
Linux kernel, it uses the API available for compression methods.  So it 
is actually giving you encryption, it's just called 'compression' in 
the logs because that's what the kernel and pppd think it is.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: Using interface ppp0
> Jan 15 07:57:59 firewall pppd[1468]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: MSCHAP-v2 peer authentication succeeded
> for georgev
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: found interface eth0 for proxy arp
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: local  IP address 10.10.0.254
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: remote IP address 10.10.0.97
> Jan 15 07:58:02 firewall pppd[1468]: MPPE 128 bit, stateless receive
> compression enabled
> 
> thanks,
> George Vieira
> Systems Manager
> Citadel Computer Systems P/L
> http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au
> 
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