Views: 6,426 So last week the big news was about the cross platform exploit in BASH that we covered in our article – Everything You NEED To Know About Shellshock Bug In BASH. As mentioned in the comments, a certain combination of circumstances and configuration options can leave OpenVPN vulnerable to Shellshock. This could be […]
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SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part IV
Views: 23,283 4. Brief How-to …. Creating Multiple clients to Single site tunnels. Example of using PKI to create a client-to-site VPN: For a road warrior or roaming/multiple user scenario, static keys based VPNs don’t scale well. You will need to implement a PKI if you have Hub and Spoke architecture of VPN. From the […]
SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part III
Views: 21,898 3. Brief How-to ….. OpenVPN and Site-to-Site Tunnels. OpenVPN can be implemented either Site-to-site or client-server model. I will take example configurations of both models. If you want to implement site-to-site configuration, the best way is to use static-keys instead of PKI. Using static keys, you can have your VPN tunnel up and […]
SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part II
Views: 16,979 2. Why OpenVPN Here, in this article, I will lay down the emphasis on one important Open-Source SSL VPN software written by James Yonan and contributed by several others, which proposes security without the inherent complexity of IPsec AND using a trusted design of client component and VPN server. Usually VPNs require end […]
SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN
Views: 28,570 [ad] Requirement: To connect to a VPN server in a different country. Situation: A country which has proxies at every gateway. Issues: VPN based on IPSec is fussy when it comes across networks which are NAT’ted/ proxied. The Security Parameters Indexes don’t match and clients do not get connected. Objective: To connect VPN […]