POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Fun with cryptography : Re: Fun with cryptography Server Time
7 Sep 2024 21:15:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fun with cryptography  
From: Darren New
Date: 4 Jul 2008 13:43:42
Message: <486e614e@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I thought I saw somewhere that OpenVPN *does* work with NAT, but IPSec 
> doesn't. (Because NAT involves packet modification, which IPSec is 
> obviously designed to prevent.)

No, what they said was that if you want IPSec to work with NAT, you had 
to exclude the IP addresses from the hash calculation with a 
configuration. Since OpenVPN never even offers the opportunity to 
include the IP addresses, it's "simpler" and therefore more secure.

Huh?

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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