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openvpn vs openssl
Lin Shen
2009-11-05 21:36:28 UTC
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Does anyone here have openvpn experience? I want to build a SSL vpn product. Trying to decide if I should use openssl or openvpn as the base. From my research, sounds like using openvpn would save my some work such as management UI etc. Any comments?

lin



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Carter Browne
2009-11-06 14:36:59 UTC
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I have found openvpn a challenge to configure, but once you get it right
it works very well. Newer Watchguard Firewall appliances provide
openvpn support to allow for remote SSL VPN access and I have found it
to work very well either with their pre-packaged application or using
openvpn installed on a client computer using their configuration files.

Carter

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Post by Lin Shen
Does anyone here have openvpn experience? I want to build a SSL vpn product. Trying to decide if I should use openssl or openvpn as the base. From my research, sounds like using openvpn would save my some work such as management UI etc. Any comments?
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John R Pierce
2009-11-06 19:54:04 UTC
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Post by Lin Shen
Does anyone here have openvpn experience? I want to build a SSL vpn product. Trying to decide if I should use openssl or openvpn as the base. From my research, sounds like using openvpn would save my some work such as management UI etc. Any comments?
openssl is just a encryption library, it doesn't address network routing
or any of the other things that go along with a VPN

openvpn uses openssl for its transport encryption.

if you are talking about building an appliance product, I'd think you
would still be developing a UI/management layer on top of openvpn, user
and certificate management, etc.


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