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Where does this idea that OpenVPN is TLS come from? No, it does not appear like HTTPS nor does it use TLS for the traffic. OpenVPN has its completely own encap
by MichaelGG 9y ago
Where does this idea that OpenVPN is TLS come from? No, it does not appear like HTTPS nor does it use TLS for the traffic.
OpenVPN has its completely own encapsulation protocol, and it stuffs a few TLS packets inside that to do key exchange, nothing more. (And it's key exchange is odd as they re-implement TLS PRF ... on top of TLS.)
t. Recently implemented an OpenVPN client.