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End of Days for MS-CHAPv2, (Mon, Jul 30th)

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Moxie Marlinspike and David Hulton gave a talk at Defcon 20 on a presentation on cracking MS-CHAPv2 with 100% success rate. This protocol is still very much in use with PPTP VPNs, and WPA2 Enterprise environments for authentication.
Moxie's recommendations [1]:
1- All users and providers of PPTP VPN solutions should immediately start migrating to a different VPN protocol. PPTP traffic should be considered unencrypted.

2- Enterprises who are depending on the mutual authentication properties of MS-CHAPv2 for connection to their WPA2 Radius servers should immediately start migrating to something else.
Knowing that MS-CHAPv2 can now be cracked, what alternatives are you considering to secure your now insecure communications? The two alternatives suggested by Moxie are [...] OpenVPN configuration, or IPSEC in certificate rather than PSK mode.
[1] https://www.cloudcracker.com/blog/2012/07/29/cracking-ms-chap-v2/

[2] https://github.com/moxie0/chapcrack
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Guy Bruneau IPSS Inc. gbruneau at isc dot sans dot edu (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. http://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

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