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Re: [Openvpn-users] server mode without any auth & encryption


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] server mode without any auth & encryption
  • From: "Nick" <z508617@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 10:08:14 -0800

Thanks for the suggestion.
Linux is the server box but clients can be anything - xp, linux,
freebsd, solaris, etc.,
any box that can run ssh and openvpn can be a client.
If I were to choose the blowfish cipher as you suggest then what is the
config file
specification for it? (i.e. "server a.b.c.d" or "mode server" option).
I am using the latest posted version of openvpn.
Thanks.

On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:04:45 -0600, "Les Mikesell"
<lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 09:39 -0800, Nick wrote:
> 
> > I've spent the last hour researching how to set up an openvpn server
> > without any encryption whatsoever, not even shared keys, and it seems 
> > like it's impossible to do. The reason encryption is not needed is that
> > client connections arrive over secure links (ssh sessions with 1 time
> > passwords).
> > In other words if you are able to connect to the openvpn server that's
> > good enough and there
> > is no need for additional overhead (i.e. yet more encryption or
> > authentication).
> > Why server mode you might wonder?
> > Because I want the server to push several subnets to the clients.
> > I want all the benefits of server mode without the cost of auth &
> > encryption.
> 
> This doesn't exactly answer your question, but if you are
> using Linux and just want tunnels to transport known private
> network ranges over the internet you can use GRE tunnels
> instead of a VPN.  It's not as handy in dynamic scenarios
> as openvpn but not bad for fixed locations and has the
> advantage of interoperating with Cisco (and probably other)
> routers.  If you do stick with openvpn, blowfish encryption
> is not very CPU intensive.
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
-- 
  Nick
  z508617@xxxxxxxx

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