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

[George Vieira]

Hmm.. just went through it and found they talk about 2.4 PPPD and yet it was
2.3.11 for require-mppe... bit dumb...

how hard would it be to make the changes manually... argh!!! I guess not.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:10 PM
> To:	Jerry Vonau
> Cc:	Charlie Brady; Tom Eastep; PPTP List (E-mail); George Vieira
> Subject:	Re: [pptp-server] MPPE 128 Bit Compression?? What happen to
> Encryption???
> 
> Sorry, No, I don't have the patch.  But, you could just delete the other
> cases in the pppd source, and make the default case to drop the conn with
> the desired error message.
> 
> 
>  On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> 
> > Hey All:
> >
> > I was able to duplicate the "receive" problem.
> >
> > I was using a linux client that had the mppe
> > support, but didn't state that on the command
> > line or on the options file.
> >
> > So there is something else to watch out for when
> > using the linux client....
> >
> > On a different note, anybody have a require
> > encryption patch for 2.4.1?
> >
> > Jerry Vonau
> >
> > Charlie Brady wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 lists at earthling.2y.net wrote:
> > >
> > > > For mppe stateless to work, I think (its been a while), you have to
> have
> > > > both sides supporting mppe for it to work at all because the next
> > >
> > > You always need both sides supporting mppe for it to work.
> > >
> > > The central issue here though is whether encryption is used in one
> > > direction or in both. Usually you will want both.
> > >
> > > > packet's encryption is based off the previous packet.  I may be
> wrong, as
> > > > I said its been a while.  That is why when you start loosing packets
> with
> > > > stateless, the ppp session has to stop and renegotiate encryption.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tom Eastep wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Monday 14 January 2002 04:20 pm, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > > > > > Hey all:
> > > > > > >>MPPE 128 bit, stateless receive compression enabled<<
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is the receive part not an error?? That would suggest
> > > > > > that encryption is for receive only, not transmit....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Should it not be:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > MPPE 128 bit, stateless compression enabled
> > >
> > > It depends entirely on what is negotiated, which in turn depends
> entirely
> > > on the options selected at each end of the link.
> > >
> > > Here is the relevant code; as you can see there are three different
> > > possibilities:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >     ccp_flags_set(f->unit, 1, 1);
> > >     if (ANY_COMPRESS(*go)) {
> > >         if (ANY_COMPRESS(*ho)) {
> > >             if (go->method == ho->method) {
> > >                 notice("%s compression enabled", method_name(go, ho));
> > >             } else {
> > >                 strlcpy(method1, method_name(go, NULL),
> sizeof(method1));
> > >                 notice("%s / %s compression enabled",
> > >                        method1, method_name(ho, NULL));
> > >             }
> > >         } else
> > >             notice("%s receive compression enabled", method_name(go,
> NULL));
> > >     } else if (ANY_COMPRESS(*ho))
> > >         notice("%s transmit compression enabled", method_name(ho,
> NULL));
> > > ...
> > >
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