VPN--PPTP w/MPPE (encryption) on Samsung Epic

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I've read that it's a common problem with other android 2.1 devices, and from what I've gathered, it appears that pppd and the kernel were compiled without MPPE support, so you can't connect to a PPTP VPN that requires encryption with the device.

I'm considering trying to dig into recompiling the kernel to support MPPE (we can just steal pppd from another device, or recompile it, as well)... but I didn't want to jump into that if someone else has already done so or is already working on/releasing a custom kernel and can just fix this in theirs with less effort.

Soooo... anyone else working on or interested in this issue?

i second this. The earlier we begin implementing security into our devices the better .

I could use IPSec with challenge response like bluefire for winmo has

Alright, sounds like this hasn't been fixed yet, so I'll start digging to find out exactly what is missing from the kernel--my guess is GRE protocol support, but I'm not sure.