Timeline for Should we discourage the use of PPTP
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| Jan 21, 2013 at 8:22 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | Yes, that I can get behind. | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 7:40 | comment | added | tylerl | @MarkHenderson - so agreed that if anyone suggests that they're using PPTP for encryption, then a warning is in order. | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 5:32 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | I would say plenty. From what I can tell, most people use their PPTP tunnels for connecting remote sites together (who would have thought?) - if you were just after P2P encryption then they are doing it wrong, then yes, they're totally wrong and batshit crazy to be using PPTP. But I don't think people use PPTP for encryption, they use it for tunelling. | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 5:22 | comment | added | tylerl | @MarkHenderson -- You intentionally left out "in almost all installations", while I intentionally put it in there. How many people implement PPTP just for the tunneling and not the encryption? Really? | |
| Jan 21, 2013 at 5:14 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod |
I agree with the majority if your statement, but I take issue with the statement PPTP fails at its only goal - PPTP is Point to Point Tunneling Protocol, and at creating a Point to Point tunnel it succeeds just fine, and that is its primary goal. It's not called "Point to Point Super-Encrypted Uncrackable Tunneling Protocol"
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| Jan 21, 2013 at 5:11 | history | answered | tylerl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |