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		Avamander on July 21, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dead Simple VPN Makes it super easy but even more opaque, that is not a good thing with incredibly security-related software.

xrisk on July 21, 2019 [–]

Isn't it common advice to not roll your own crypto? If this software has sensible defaults, I see no problem with using it.

Avamander on July 21, 2019 | [–]

It is, but with this script it's a third party rolling their own crypto for you :D. OpenVPN should have good defaults instead.

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