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Re: PPTP and encryption / RC4 weaknesses



## Jean-Francois Dive (jef@linuxbe.org):

> I was wondering: PPTP use RC4 up to 128 bit keys as an encryption mechanism. I'd like
> to have the impressions from people of the list about the cryptographic strenght of
> such algorithm, especially now that wireless WEP RC4 based encryption have been broken. 

PPTP can easily be broken if MS-CHAPv2 is used:
http://mopo.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/pptp_mschapv2/

Regards,
cmt

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