[Ach] VPN related thoughts

christian mock cm at coretec.at
Mon Nov 25 18:31:20 CET 2013


On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 03:34:56PM +0100, Niklaus Schiess wrote:

> * A few days ago a PPTP section was commited
> (cc024c061975fe968501401b4782e314fe75fb33). I agree, PPTP is really bad
> and should not be deployed anymore due to the lack of integrity and weak
> encryption by MPPE (which uses RC4). But the really "broken" part of
> PPTP is the MSCHAP-v2 challenge-response authentication. But besides
> that, PPTP can also authenticate cients/servers by e.g. EAP-TLS (based
> on X509 certificates). Is there a reason why alternative authentication
> methods liek EAP-TLS aren't/won't be covered in this paper?

First reason that comes to my mind: we'd then need to write sections
on configuring that (securely) for a variety of installations, i.e.
windows versions, phion firewall, whatnot.

> * As some kind of successor of PPTP, SSTP
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc247338.aspx) should be added
> to the VPN section. It's Basically just an interlayer to carry PPP
> frames within SSL sessions (which by the way also uses MSCHAP-v2 per
> default).

Given the inability to design VPN protocols that MS has shown in the
past, why should we trust they got it right this time? With MS-Chap,
even? 

> * The cipher listing in the OpenVPN section of "available and
> recommended" ciphers doesn't include Blowfish (BF-CBC). Why?

I think the direct reason was that even Schneier doesn't recommend
using blowfish anymore. Plus we want to keep the ciphersuites in sync
with the other software. Plus that section still is in flux.

cm.

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