Running OpenVPN on an unknown/public machine?

Scripts to manage certificates or generate config files

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charmander
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Running OpenVPN on an unknown/public machine?

Post by charmander » Sat Oct 26, 2013 9:24 pm

I guess this is a question about how everyone manages/transports their keys for use on an unknown computer.

Would it be ok to generate a set of keys and store them on an encrypted thumb drive, with the OpenVPN client .exe and a config file to be carried around in the event you are say, in a starbucks, or at a friends house and want to quickly setup a VPN on that machine?

Thoughts, ideas?

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eibgrad
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Re: Running OpenVPN on an unknown/public machine?

Post by eibgrad » Wed Feb 26, 2014 9:41 pm

You can never fully trust any computer you don't own/control, period.

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