OpenVPN with authorization, but without encryption.

ogogon

Dear colleagues!

Please tell me the answer to a very strange question.

For the implementation of a some non-commercial project, I need to build a VPN, which allows without any problems that clients use dynamic addresses.
In this case, because of pre-defined rules, the system when used to provide access to the network, can not use encryption.
However, about the prohibition of authentication mechanisms, thank God, no one speaks.
That's the unusual configuration!

Can I configure the OpenVPN server so that the authentication of clients to work effectively, but the his traffic is not encrypted?

Ogogon.

P.S. Anticipating the question of where I found this strange system with mad regulations, right answer - in the amateur radio society.

Ogo.

Traffic

ogogon wroteCan I configure the OpenVPN server so that the authentication of clients to work effectively, but the his traffic is not encrypted?

The manual suggests this:

The Manual wrote--cipher alg
Encrypt data channel packets with cipher algorithm alg. The default is BF-CBC, an abbreviation for Blowfish in Cipher Block Chaining mode. Blowfish has the advantages of being fast, very secure, and allowing key sizes of up to 448 bits. Blowfish is designed to be used in situations where keys are changed infrequently.

For more information on blowfish, see http://www.counterpane.com/blowfish.html

To see other ciphers that are available with OpenVPN, use the --show-ciphers option.

OpenVPN supports the CBC, CFB, and OFB cipher modes, however CBC is recommended and CFB and OFB should be considered advanced modes.

Set alg=none to disable encryption.

This may effect other elements of your VPN ..