Re: PPTP traffic should be considered unencrypted

Tim Gustafson <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:40:03 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.network.poptop,gmane.comp.misc.pptpclient.devel
Message-ID <CAG27QgT19n_uL2qwRu5xYTQqt2D_Pr2SmR+-jGAa2h8jaVp=Bw@mail.gmail.com>
> The user's password.  That is to say, the attack would have to be
> repeated if the user changed their PPTP password.

Actually, it occurs to me that I haven't seen this question asked or
answered so far either:

The vulnerability described does not seem to be related to EAP,
correct?  Is using EAP as an authentication method still viable?

I'm thinking something like EAP-TTLS.  As described on the Wikipedia
page, it seems like a viable option.  I get that it doesn't do MPPE
encryption, but as I mentioned before, I don't particularly care about
that.

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Tim Gustafson
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