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Terms in VPN

DES

 DES, an acronym for Data Encryption Standard, is a cipher that was selected by

NIST (National Institute of Standard and Technology), using a 56-bit key for

encryption.

3DES

 3DES, an acronym for Triple Data Encryption Standard, providing significantly

enhanced security by executing the core DES algorithm three times in a row, is

more difficult to break than DES, using a 168-bit key size.

AES

 AES, an acronym for Advanced Encryption Standard, is more difficult to break

than DES. The DES encryption key is 56 bits long; on the contrary, AES keys

can be 128, 192 or 256 bits long.

Terms in Settings

Web VPN / SSL VPN Client Configuration

 Configures the Protocol, Client IP address range, Encryption algorithm, Server

port. Assigns DNS server addresses to clients or WINS server addresses to client.

 Set subnet of server that can be accessed by the client user.

Note:

1. The SSL VPN IP address range cannot overlap with the address range from any of the

following internal network subnets or servers: LAN, DMZ, WAN, Multiple. Subnet, etc.

Name

 The name of the SSL VPN authentication.

Authentication Account / Group

 The authentication group and user under Policy Object > Authentication >

User / Group.