Re: AIM & VPN

[11a () GMX NET (Bluefish)]

Getting in touch with AIM clone-developers is really not hard (especially
for me since such a person is attending my class ;-) but people better
have welldefine, written down question before they start asking, otherwise
they're quite likely to just irritate the developers IMHO.

I'm no expert upon AIM, but the term VPN is probably a bad word to use?
That communication simply is encrypted between two hosts hardly fits the
common use of VPN.

Additionally, most actually windows VPNs are insecure since they commonly
use PTPP v1 or PTPP v2. PTPP v1 is extremly trivial, PTPP relies on
password for keygeneration which makes them highly unsuitable for a
company which faces any kind of advanced attacker (alas, even small
industriall spies... and most certainly not nations)

The IPSec protocoll (which W2K supports IIRC) is much more secure,
although known to be complex. The third option is to tunnel software using
i.e. SSH, which is a moderately good solution in some cases.

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