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Date: Fri Jun  9 15:25:33 2006
From: tim-security at sentinelchicken.org (Tim)
Subject: SSL VPNs and security

> >Set up a wildcard record, *.webvpn.example.org, pointing to the device.
> >The device then maps all internal domain names or IP addresses to a
> >unique hostname, such as:  internalhost.webvpn.example.org, or
> >192-168-0-1.webvpn.example.org, etc.
> 
> This has the side effect of making procurement of the SSL certificates 
> *very* expensive.

SSL certificates are free.  You just have to have enough knowledge to
distribute your own CA certificate.  For a VPN appliance, this should
not be a problem at all, since only your trusted users should be
accessing it. Even if you aren't competent enough to figure out how to
distribute your own CA certificate, I believe there are such things as
wildcard certificates.

tim

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