full-disclosure - PGPNet Upgrade path ?

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Date: Sat Sep 17 16:53:33 2005
From: m at rtij.nl (Martijn Lievaart)
Subject: PGPNet Upgrade path ?

Aditya Deshmukh wrote:

>>>What alternatives are there to pgpnet ?
>>>      
>>>
>>Have a look at OpenVPN.
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks Martijn, but isn`t that a SSL vpn ? And from what I 
>have read about PGPnet I need a IPSEC VPN that uses 
>PGP keys to do the auth.
>  
>

It's real VPN based on SSL technoligy, but not a WebSSL VPN. It's more 
like IpSec than like a WebVPN in that it creates true network paths, not 
virtual ones in a browser.

>I know for ipsec VPNs I could use the winxp's builtin 
>But that would require moving all the PGP keys to 
>X.509 certs.
>
>  
>

Yes, absolutely. For OpenVPN you need to use X509 certs, you will have 
to rework your whole PKI. However:
* It's is free
* It's is safe (an audit of most opensource vpn solutions clearly showed 
OpenVPN to be both well designed as well as well implemented)
* It's a snap to set up, contrary to IpSec (provided you have openssl 
somewhere to generate the needed PKI)
* It can be used as a service or a user program on Windows.

So if you consider dropping PGP all together, have a look at OpenVPN.

M4