Submission + - VPN flaw shows users ip (wired.co.uk) 1

Submitted by AHuxley on Monday June 21, 2010 @11:20AM

AHuxley writes: A VPN flaw announced at Cipher conference in Sweden allows individual users to be identified.
When using IPv6 and PPTP the hidden IP address of a user can be found, as well as the MAC.
The Swedish anti-piracy bureau could already be gathering data using the exploit.

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Announced at Cipher conference? (Score:2)

by temojen ( 678985 ) writes:

I thought it was announced in the RFCs... There's a reason it's called Payload encryption, not Payload & Metadata encryption.

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