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Mastering OpenVPN
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Mastering OpenVPN

by Eric F Crist, Jan Just Keijser
August 2015
Intermediate to advanced
364 pages
7h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Preface

Privacy and security on the Internet and in private networks is a growing concern and is increasingly common in the news, where there are breaches of each. Virtual private networks (VPN) were created out of a need for secured communications. The most popular and widely used open source VPN software today is OpenVPN. Mastering OpenVPN aims to educate you on deployment, troubleshooting, and configuration of OpenVPN and provide solid use cases for various scenarios.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to OpenVPN, discusses the various types of Virtual Private Networks and some of their various strengths and weaknesses. PPTP, OpenVPN, IPSec, and other protocols are also discussed in this chapter.

Chapter 2, Point-to-point Mode, covers ...

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ISBN: 9781783553136