On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 08:50:10PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>You realize it is insecure, right?

only microsoft's current implementation, and mainly because of the
lanman password thing.  full details of their shortcomings can be
found at:

   http://www.counterpane.com/pptp.html

as bad as they might be at things like this, the protocol in and of
itself does imply that someone is thinking about a generic, software
based vpn idea.  and since it's effectively impossible to do something
like an ssh encapsulated ppp connection with windows, windows users
donm't have much choice.

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