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Content relating to VPN software and technology.

openvpn 2.6.0 released Members Public

The new openvpn 2.6.0 has some very nice and shiny features you might want to starting using soon. This post highlights some of them.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Linux

Create a TPM backed certificate request (on windows) Members Public

Certificates are everywhere - sometimes you want to keep them even more secure than just on the filesystem (or operating system store). This guide shows how to create TPM backed certificates on windows.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Windows

pfsense - CRL has expired in openvpn server Members Public

A few days ago we ran into an issue where pfsense appliances started to refuse openvpn connections by showing "CRL has expired" error messages. As it shows the reason is an overflow a date.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Linux

openvpn data channel offload Members Public

openvpn is working on offloading the data channel to kernel space. This is improving throughput by an order of magnitude according tests.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
Network

openvpn 2.5 - using wintun Members Public

Starting with release 2.5 openvpn added support for wintun interfaces. To enable utilization of wintun interfaces, you need to make some adjustments.

Daniel Nachtrub
Daniel Nachtrub
VPN