Author: sajolida Date: To: s7r, The Tails public development discussion list, weebieez Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Openvpn
s7r@???: > On 1/5/2014 12:55 AM, Webie Webie wrote:
>> Hi, you should add openvpn to Tails if it possible!
>
> This has been discussed before and it has been agreed that a VPN is
> not so good for anonymity as some might think. In fact, Tails does not
> recommend to use such poor anonymity at all.
>
> Because in some particular cases, an user who know what he is doing,
> needs a specific IP address or an IP address in a specific location or
> an IP address not listed a as a Tor gateway (such as for checking
> online bank account or making payments, etc.) - because of all these I
> think a VPN support will be useful in Tails but only for OpenVPN which
> is believed to be secure at this moment, not PPTP, L2TP or other.
>
> The manner should be the same like Unsafe Browser, meaning the user
> has to be warned about the risk he is exposing too and I think the VPN
> should be used only over the Tor network, never straight connections
> with real IP address. Just my thoughts, experts here can and will take
> the correct decision.
Yes. And it might be worth to have a look at our blueprint on VPN support:
