On 08/12/2011, at 8:02 PM, Jason White wrote:
And, astoundingly, PPTP security is _still_ weak.
I suspect that's one reason why technically informed contributors to this and other fora usually recommend OpenVPN or IPSec instead.
Jason (and any other VPN protocol experts on the list), I'm curious: how well supported is OpenVPN and/or IPSec across other platforms? I support a PPTP-based VPN system where the reduced security was deemed (almost) acceptable given that it works with a wide range of operating systems, including various flavours of Linux, Android, iOS and Mac OS X, that our users are using. The last time I looked, PPTP was the only VPN solution that had good cross-platform support on all those platforms. For example, I don't know of an OpenVPN client for (non-jail-broken) iOS clients. I'm really keen to know if that has changed, as I would love to offer a more secure solution. Ideally it would not be too much harder to set up than PPTP either, as many times the users are setting up their VPN connection remotely. Regards Graeme