Hello,

I have two questions regarding vpn.

(1) My institute has a vpn net to which I would like to connect from
home. This would save me a lot of ssh'ing because currently I have to
go through two "portals"; there are also other intersting things, such
as being able to download papers from online Journals since our
institute has subscribed to virtually all existing journals in our
field.

So this is the first newbie question: How do I connect to the vpn net
(of course I have all passwds etc) from my OpenBSD laptop? The
machines in the institute are linux but I think this is irrelevant.

(2) Also, I have internet at home, of course. I can use wireless and
it's working pretty well but I am worried about security. WEP is out
of question, because you can break that one in a couple of 3 minutes
if you have a strong signal; I know it because I have played a lot
with aircrack for this at home with my own net and it takes that
amount of time. WPA is certainly more secure but with a good
dictionary I believe (never did it) that if you can gather some 3
hours of packets you should be able to break the password in some
hours.

So I read "somewhere" (newbie, newbie) that you can use vpn to create
very secure wireless connection points. Is this true? If so, how can
this be done? How in/compatible is this with pf?

thanks,

Pau
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