Difference between OpenVPN and PPTP VPN services?

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What are the benefits of using OpenVPN protocol over traditional PPTP VPN service in simple words?

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OpenVPN is more unlikely to have backdoors cause it’s opensource.
But cause of it, maybe agencies have found vulns, but still it’s the most safe protocol for VPNs.
Also PPTP is just not secure. If you want vpn then avoid all protocols except OPENVPN

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Thank you for your answer buddy :+1: I will be using OpenVPN protocol.

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Hello, here is a short list of reasons that OpenVPN has better security and privacy than the PPTP VPN.

OpenVPN has an upper edge here as it uses 256-bit encryption keys and high-end ciphers. This gives good protection against the man in the middle attacks.

OpenVPN can run on a large number of platforms. Be it Linux or Windows, we can use OpenVPN. Again, the supported platforms include MacOS, iOS, and Android.

OpenVPN can use any port on TCP or UDP, which makes it easily work with internet. Even when there are network firewall based blocks in place, it is difficult to block the OpenVPN connections.

I hope you found this helpful!