What type of VPN Tunnel is the Network Connector Establishing?

The Network Connector initiates an IP over TLS connection (TLS1.2), to specific service IP addresses on port 443 with the following spec:

  • Authentication: RSA 2048/SHA256 certificates
  • Cipher suites supported:
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256_P256
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA_P256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384_P256
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P256
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA_P256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA
    • TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA_P256
    • TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA.

Note:

  • The service will choose the cipher suites based on what the Network Connector offers, which depends on the OS version
  • The minimum OS version for the Network Connector when using Windows is Windows Server 2010 or Windows 8.1
  • For example, if a customer is using one of these 2 operating systems with a default configuration, the cipher suite to be used would be TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384_P256
  • For other scenarios, the suite could be different depending on OS capabilities.