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Deploying a VPN with PKI (O'ReillyNet)

Deploying a VPN with PKI (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Oct 23, 2004 1:46 UTC (Sat) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Deploying a VPN with PKI (O'ReillyNet) by NightMonkey
Parent article: Deploying a VPN with PKI (O'ReillyNet)

Is there something I'm missing in this model?

Yes. Putting the encryption at the network layer rather than the transport layer makes a lot of things very convenient. You can read your mail, browse Intranet sites, etc. remotely just as you would on-site. You don't need any proxies. Everything just works.

OpenVPN is dead-simple to set up; certainly far less headache than IPSec.


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