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[zinkmar 0]

how do I use airvpn in pptp?

[Staff 9826]

how do I use airvpn in pptp?

Hello!

Air is based entirely on OpenVPN. PPTP has never been supported and we have currently no plans to support it. PPTP suffers of several issues which made us discard it since the beginning of the Air project. Under a security point of view PPTP should be always avoided or at least used only with EAP-TLS authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pptp#Security

Kind regards

[Baraka 30]

PPTP is so 1999-2001. Here are a couple of quotes from Wikipedia and another page that was referenced there:

PPTP is (as of Oct 2012) considered cryptographically broken and its use is no longer recommended by Microsoft.

You know if MS bashes their own protocol that it's been done for a long, long time.

(PPTP encryption) can reliably be cracked by trying out all 256 possible DES keys – no matter how complex the password is. A specially developed server can finish this task in less than a day using FPGAs.

In order words, it can be broken in a time period measured in seconds by a sufficiently large government or corporation. Not good.