[olug] TINC

[Jeff Hinrichs]

+1 openvpn
Even their paid support is a bargain.  We use it and I pay to support the
project.
http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/pricing.html

Best,
Jeff Hinrichs
On Nov 13, 2012 6:05 PM, "Christopher Cashell" <topher-olug at zyp.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Does anyone have experience with tinc vpn?
>
> It was not looked on particularly favorably in a comparison some years
> ago by well known cryptographer Peter Gutmann:
> http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/linux_vpn.txt
>
> Admittedly, that review was from 2003.  However, one of the things
> that post discusses in length, and does a great job of illustrating,
> is that security software like VPNs are difficult to get right, and
> very easy to get wrong.
>
> OpenVPN seems to have emerged as the closest thing to a de facto
> standard for non-IPsec.  Personally, I would stick with either IPsec
> or OpenVPN for any VPN needs unless I had a *really* good reason to
> use something else.
>
> Personal experience with IPsec and OpenVPN would leave me leaning
> towards OpenVPN for everything that didn't require compatibility with
> non-OpenVPN connections (appliances, routers/firewalls, other
> third-party situations), in which case I'd use IPsec.
>
> > --
> > Sam Flint
>
> --
> Christopher
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