OpenVPN

OpenVPN

Open­VPN is a vir­tu­al pri­vate net­work (VPN) pro­to­col and soft­ware for both client and serv­er applications.

It imple­ments tech­niques to cre­ate secure point-to-point or site-to-site con­nec­tions in rout­ed or bridged con­fig­u­ra­tions and remote access facil­i­ties enabling peer authen­ti­ca­tion using pre-shared secret keys, cer­tifi­cates or usernames/passwords.

  • While pre-shared secret key is the eas­i­est to imple­ment, cer­tifi­cate-based is the most robust and rich­est in fea­tures. In ver­sion 2.0, username/password authen­ti­ca­tions can be enabled, both with or with­out cer­tifi­cates, yet it requires you to rely on third-par­ty modules.
  • It can also use the HMAC pack­et authen­ti­ca­tion fea­ture to add an addi­tion­al lay­er of secu­ri­ty to the con­nec­tion (known as HMAC fire­wall) and hard­ware accel­er­a­tion to improve the encryp­tion performance.
  • When used in a mul­ti­client-serv­er con­fig­u­ra­tion, it also allows the serv­er to release authen­ti­ca­tion cer­tifi­cates for every client by using sig­na­tures and cer­tifi­cate authority.
  • It makes strong use of the OpenSSL encryp­tion library. As it lets OpenSSL do all the encryp­tion and authen­ti­ca­tion work, Open­VPN can use all the ciphers avail­able in the OpenSSL pack­age. In com­bi­na­tion with the TLS pro­to­col, it can thus pro­vide many secu­ri­ty and con­trol fea­tures and is also capa­ble of tra­vers­ing fire­walls and net­work address trans­la­tors (NATs).
  • Open­VPN is a free soft­ware, released under the terms of the GNU Gen­er­al Pub­lic License ver­sion 2 (GPLv2).
  • Open­VPN runs best over User Data­gram Pro­to­col (UDP) but can also run over Trans­mis­sion Con­trol Pro­to­col (TCP) trans­ports if UDP con­nec­tions fail.

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      Open­VPN is a vir­tu­al pri­vate net­work (VPN) pro­to­col and soft­ware for both client and serv­er applications.

      It imple­ments tech­niques to cre­ate secure point-to-point or site-to-site con­nec­tions in rout­ed or bridged con­fig­u­ra­tions and remote access facil­i­ties enabling peer authen­ti­ca­tion using pre-shared secret keys, cer­tifi­cates or usernames/passwords.

      Pub­lic key infra­struc­ture (PKI) refers to a range of tech­nolo­gies for authen­ti­cat­ing users and devices in order to secure the dig­i­tal trans­fer of infor­ma­tion for a range of net­work activ­i­ties such as e‑commerce, inter­net bank­ing and con­fi­den­tial email.

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