NAT and PPTP

[Michael Bretterklieber]

Hi,

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Brett Glass wrote:
>
> By the way, is there BSD-licensed code for the enhanced version of MPPE
> that does both encryption AND compression (I believe it's called MPPC)?
no. MPPC (STAC-compression) is proprietary and patented (www.hifn.com),
you can enable MPPC, but you have to buy the sources.

> I understand that Microsoft Windows has it built in, and that it's available
> for Linux as well.
this is a kernel module for linux, however they are violating the
US-patent.

bye,
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