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Re: What VPN is recommended?



> > The connection is almost definitely secure, but the problem we struggle
> > with at work is whether or not the client machine is secure.  We're very
> > reluctant (Indeed, we haven't) offered software-based VPN's to any of
> > our employees or clients.  It seems to us that the only comfortably
> > secure solution is to give the client a hardware-based firewall/vpn
> > appliance.  We're looking at some of the sweet embedded Linux devices
> > now, but up until this point we've been giving out low-end workstations
> > to our employees that act as a firewall/gateway/vpn.

hardware-based solutions seems ackward.  you're talking about dongles or
pccard right?  what about some passphrase like what gnupg does before
signing a message?


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