What are the different kinds of VPNs? I have no idea what computers do so I'm the dumbest guy in this city and definitely this mailing list. VPN stands for virtual private network but when I think about what that is I think of a VPN as essentially a local network that allows incoming connections but has certain protocols ( not sure which) that allows it to be more secure than ssh maybe? I'd like to be able to monitor traffic and users with logging functionality and passwords so when I'm developing an application I can't ensure with a reasonable level of certainty that my infrastructure and software is somewhat protected from malicious or curious authors.
I'm not implying OpenBSD is weak. I've arrived to this community because the group is so obsessive about security (aslr, randomness, checksums, etc). I ruled out everyone else including Linux/Ubuntu, Google cloud, Amazon, and even co-location because of how these businesses operate and how they treat users data. I've even looked into freeBSD but it has come up short in its vision for my purposes with privacy and security. I barely know what a VPN is and I have only installed openbsd and started on port forwarding but smart people have mentioned that I should look into a VPN. I want my whole data center infrastructure to be run off Openbsd because it's what I think is the most responsible operating system to date ( even considering SEL4 by General dynamics that is only a kernel at this point). On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Theo de Raadt <dera...@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote: > > Has anyone succesfully created a VPN with OpenBSD v5.7 or 5.8? > > Yes, people do it all the time. > > Please -- what KIND of VPN are you asking about. > > Is conversational precision that difficult? There are more than two > handfuls of technologies that create something which is considered "a VPN". > > As a result, this conversation about VPN's is super low quality; > there is no point implying OpenBSD is weak at doing these things, > it is the inexact people walking around acting lost... > > -- danny nguyen linkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/danny-n/7/b63/379>
