Aun’s Blog

CCIE Security Lab

Scheduled for the lab - December 9, 2008

Won’t be studying in August, as I’ll be traveling, so I’ll pretty much have 3 months. Wish me luck!

64-bit IPSec VPN client for *nix

Looking for a Cisco IPSec VPN Client to use on your 64-bit *nix OS? Well, for those of you who have already figured out that Cisco has not developed one for 64-bit OS’s, there is, however, a great alternative for people who use a 64-bit *nix OS. As mentioned in a previous post, there is a client developed by Maurice Massar that works with Cisco VPN Concentrators (ASA, 3000 Concentrator and IOS Routers), called vpnc that has worked well for me thus far. I have been using it on my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 desktop, and have yet to see any issues. You can use vpnc with Cygwin on Windows, however, I am not sure how well Cygwin works with 64-bit Windows.

Disclaimer: This client is not developed or supported by Cisco Systems. So, use at your own risk.

Articles

• How to Encrypt Data using Free Software: Article that talks about how you can go about using free software to encrypt data, especially data that will be transmitted over an insecure medium, like the Internet.

iPhone 2.0 and Cisco IPSec VPN

Looks like the new software will have the Cisco IPSec VPN Client built-in! People won’t have to do L2TP (over IPSec) any more! Yay!

Data Encryption using GnuPG

For everyone who read my post from August ‘07 but didn’t know how to go about setting it up - go here to get step-by-step instructions on how to set it up. It’s easy… really!