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Re: {Definitely Spam?} RE: Home VPN - Hamachi




>
> > Except you need to go via their server to connect.. there
> > appears to be no direct connection option - ie ip <-> ip -
> > why would I want to have a 3rd party involved in any way in my
vpn?
>
> "Hamachi is secure. All Hamachi communications are encrypted and
> authenticated with industry-standard algorithms and protocols. Nobody
will
> be able to see what two Hamachi peers are talking about. Not even
us."
>
> If it gets the thumbs up from Steve "Mr Security" Gibson, I
imagine it's
> secure..
>
> As for the reason - the advantage of this is supposed to be that it's
> "Zero-configuration VPN".  What that means in practise I
have no idea.
>
Without a third party, it'd have trouble traversing between two NAT'ed
networks....






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