Re: Pen-Testing VPN

From: Peter Van Epp (vanepp@sfu.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 03 2003 - 15:33:18 EST


        While I don't remember if it included tools, there was a paper on
pen-testing an IPSEC gateway at the Cansecwest conference 2 years ago. The
gist of it was that it is possible to cause a (defeatable) denial of service
in the first 12 bytes of an initial connection it was otherwise pretty
secure. That of course doesn't necessarily go for the management web interface
on the VPN gateway (there was also a paper on penetrating those at the same
conference). That should at least give you a place to start poking :-).
I believe the web site is www.cansecwest.com (google will find it in any case).

Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada

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