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OpenVPN Vulnerable To Shellshock Exploit

October 2, 2014 | 5,300 views

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 a pretty […]

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SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part IV

March 10, 2006 | 22,986 views

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 OpenVPN.net website: […]

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SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part III

March 9, 2006 | 21,607 views

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 running in […]

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SSL VPNs and OpenVPN – Part II

March 8, 2006 | 16,645 views

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 points which […]

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SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN

March 7, 2006 | 27,700 views

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 server in a […]