Network World

Preventing IPsec VPN failures: recommendations (part 1)

Well, based on a number of emails I have received, some people were quite surprised to learn in my first blog post that poorly designed and configured IPsec VPNs are vulnerable not only to the NSA and ...
Ars Technica

IPSec between Windows 2000 professional <---> Windows Server 2003

Hello, I am trying to configure an IPsec tunnel between a Windows 2000 Professional machine and a Windows Server 2003 machine. I have created a new IP security policy on each machine using a ...
Ars Technica

In public key authentication, why are the private keys used with the client and not the other way around?

I'm trying to understand how public key authentication works and with tools such as ChatGPT I'm able to resolve how it works; the server keeps a tab of "authorized" public keys and uses them to ...
Network World

Preventing IPsec VPN failures: recommendations (part 2)

In my last blog post, I recommended a number of ways to avoid the first five of my top ten reasons why IPsec VPNs fail. As promised, in this blog post, I’ll finish this particular topic by explaining ...