Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:04:47 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: net@freebsd.org Subject: SSTP support? Message-ID: <200708082205.QAA14169@lariat.net>
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All: Microsoft has apparently come out with a new VPN protocol called SSTP. There's no RFC for it, but it's essentially PPP over SSL, with the encryption coming from SSL and the authentication still done within PPP. It should be an improvement over PPTP, which is blocked by default by all of the major Windows firewalls (even though the security problems in it have pretty much been fixed) and has many incompatible or marginal implementations. PPTP is turning into a tech support nightmare, and we'd be eager to replace it with something similar that was more reliable and goof-proof. It seems as if it would be easy to cobble together an SSTP client and server using code already available on FreeBSD. (It'd require a daemon for userland PPP and probably an SSL Netgraph node -- which, surprisingly, doesn't seem to exist already -- for mpd.) Is anyone already working on such a project? --Brett Glass
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