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Commit b3f9b92a authored by Matt Domsch's avatar Matt Domsch Committed by David S. Miller
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[PPP]: add PPP MPPE encryption module


From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>

The patch below implements the Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption method
as a PPP compressor/decompressor.  This is necessary for Linux clients and
servers to interoperate with Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
(PPTP) servers (either Microsoft PPTP servers or the poptop project) which
use MPPE to encrypt data when creating a VPN.

This patch differs from the kernel_ppp_mppe DKMS pacakge at
pptpclient.sourceforge.net by utilizing the kernel crypto routines rather
than providing its own SHA1 and arcfour implementations.

Minor changes to ppp_generic.c try to prevent a link from disabling
compression (in our case, the encryption) after it has started using
compression (encryption).

Feedback to <pptpclient-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> please.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Cc: James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
Acked-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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