HotBrick VPN 800/8 F manual Security level

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Tunnel Name– In order to distinguish the tunnel, you have to give the “Tunnel” a unique name.

PPPoE Session– If you are using PPPoE to make the connection, and your ISP offers multiple PPPoE sessions, you can select these PPPoE sessions to construct VPN tunnels.

Enable setting – The tunnel can only be connected if enabled.

Phase 1 DH Group – Use DH Group 1(768-bits), DH Group 2(1024-bits), or Group 5 (1536-bits) to generate IPSec SA keys.

Phase 1 Encryption Method– Three data encryption methods are available: DES, 3DES, AES.

Phase 1 Authentication Method– There are two authentication methods available: MD5 and SHA1 (Secure Hash Algorithm).

Phase 1 SA Life Time– By default the Security Association lifetime is 3600 Sec.

Force Deletion after Expiring – Once SA expires, tunnel will be removed and related resources will be released to the system.

Security level

Encryption Method – specifies the encryption mechanism to use. Data encryption makes the data unreadable if intercepted. There are three encryption method available; DES, 3DES and AES. The default is null.

Authentication – specifies the packet authentication mechanism to use. Packets authentication

proves the data comes from the source you think it comes from. There are three authentications available: MD5, SHA1 and SHA2.

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