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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: VPN, an off topic question
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.981113095257.7903A-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> from Bill Fumerola at "Nov 13, 98 09:53:12 am"
To: billf@chc-chimes.com (Bill Fumerola)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:14:07 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jtn@eboai.org, isp@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
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Bill Fumerola writes:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> 
> > Yes, PPTP is about what you'd expect from Microsoft security-wise.
> > However, it's the only instance of what the original poster asked
> > for that runs on *Win95* that I know of..
> 
> There is a SKIP Win95 client.

Of course! (how could I forget :-) SKIP is much more secure
than PPTP (more correctly, the MPPE encryption that the Microsoft
code uses over PPTP; PPTP does not itself specify any security).

-Archie

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