Security
The following considerations apply to Hamachi's use as a VPN application:
- Additional risk of disclosure of sensitive data which is stored or may be logged by the mediation server — minimal where data is not forwarded.
- The security risks due to vulnerable services on remote machines otherwise not accessible behind a NAT, common to all VPNs.
- Hamachi is stated to use strong, industry-standard algorithms to secure and authenticate the data and its security architecture is open.
- The existing client-server protocol documentation contains a number of errors, some of which have been confirmed by the vendor, pending correction, with others not yet confirmed.
- For the product to work, a "mediation server", operated by the vendor, is required.
- This server stores the nickname, maintenance password, statically-allocated 5.0.0.0/8 IP address and the associated authentication token of the user. As such, it can potentially log actual IP addresses of the VPN users as well as various details of the session.
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