Has anyone heard of Hamachi?
It seems to a “zero-configuration” VPN service.
Any thoughts/comments on the security of Hamachi?
Hello my Friend !!! I am so glad to see you around ! Where have you been lately ? I was kind of worried… 
Welcome back African dude ! Welcome back… 
Cheers !
I’ve been working very hard - no time for forums.
But I’m here for the hols… ;D
Haha, that’s good my friend… working hard never hurts… unless you have to work on construction and then one heavy brick drops down from the 7th floor right on your head, haha ;D ;D Then it hurts…
Anyway, this program looks really interesting. I would also like to see some feedbacks.
Cheers !
Hi Xistenz,
VPN is a safe service, use it at work. Good to hear from you again. Long time since you last showed around. Baaie veul geluk…
polonus
Hamachi - it looks like a wonderful and powerful little application. See here, conversation between Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson:
[b]GIBSON RESEARCH CORPORATION http://www.GRC.com/SERIES: Security Now!
EPISODE: #18
DATE: December 15, 2005
TITLE: Hamachi Rocks!
SPEAKERS: Steve Gibson & Leo Laporte
SOURCE FILE: http://media.GRC.com/sn/SN-018.mp3
FILE ARCHIVE: http://www.GRC.com/securitynow.htm[/b]
Link for a full conversation article:
http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-018.htm
Trust me, they had nothing else to say about it but wonderful things… it looks like perfect utility, they even called it (many times) a part of the holy grail. Another fine piece of software from Canada (Vancouver)… really nice to hear.
It looks like it’s recommended by grc.com (ShieldsUp!!). See here:
https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2
question remains is this going to be better than open source secured tunels ? (ie like http://sourceforge.net/projects/sslexplorer/ )
Just this part at the beginning of their conversation tells a lot:
Steve: Yeah, yellowtail tuna is Hamachi. And so that's the name of this. What it is, you know, we've talked now extensively for many weeks about SSH tunnels, about the concept of tunneling, about SSL, about the traditional IPSec, Microsoft's L2TP, IPSec, the original PPTP, Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, blah blah blah, you know, VPN, endpoint routers and all that. All of this really results or boils down to what do users actually use to solve these problems? We've talked about, you know, what it is that the problem is that VPN technologies solve. Hamachi - I am so excited about this, Leo - it's a secure-from-the-ground-up, lightweight, free, peer-to-peer system that does NAT traversal, so it solves NAT traversal, firewall traversal. And essentially it allows people to build ad hoc local area networks. It's interesting, when I first installed it, it assigned my machine an IP in the 5. range.
…or this:
Leo: Is it a tunnel? It's a tunneling solution.Steve: It is. It is a virtual private network, peer-to-peer secure tunneling system that, I mean, I can’t find a single fault in it. I mean, I’m using it. I’m in love with this thing.
It is very interesting conversation, and it’s very recommended to read it in full.
Regards
Yipee!!! It’s in my language too!!! 650Kb ONLY?!! This is another one of those programs that brought a smile on my face ;D ;D ;D
Cheers!
Mikey
Miha, and best of all it works as a charm ! I just installed it on my father’s PC in Croatia. We have our small private network, and I connected through UltraVNC to his computer in no seconds… unbelievable fast, and of course I use Hamachi network IP on his PC to connect to.
I have to say, it’s unbelievable fast, much faster than “regular” ways and we both are on ADSL (although his connection is quite bit slower than mine).
This is wondeful ! It simplifies things so much. And that small messaging module is also very useful, and best of all, clean, simple and it does what it’s supposed to do.
I am behind my hardware router/firewall as well as behing my ZA free (testing new version again, gave up on Kerio finally :-\ ). People using software firewalls shouldn’t forget to allow Hamachi network (IP range) in trusted area. See example how i set it in my ZA:
Hahahaha I need it for connecting to my dad’s PC too and we are also both on ADSL(his connection is also slower)! ;D
Ungh… are you sure we are not talking about the same dad ? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
I seem to be hearing only good things about Hamachi. I’ll give it a go
You should definitely give it a go!It’s so easy to set up…I think you’ll like it 
http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/1259/hamachinetwork4va.jpg
Has any one figured out how to do file tranfers utilizing Hamachi ?
If you right-click on some user and chose BROWSE you can browse his shared files without problems. Of course you have to make a rule in your Zone Alarm like I posted above, otherwise you won’t be able to browse their shared folders.
The other thing… if you mean some more extensive file transfer, you have to use some third party client… even UltraVNC, pcAnywhere can be very useful. Hamachi is here primarily to establish a tunnel connection, to allow you to create/join those networks you want to be part of.
Yeah, I heard about this program as well, on the podcast (Security Now!) and I really enjoy using the features. It just would be nice to add a proxy…