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Updated on 2025-02-06 GMT+08:00

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S2C VPN is a tunneling technology that provides IP-layer security using the IKE/IPsec protocol suite. It ensures confidentiality and integrity of IP data packets and prevents them from being intercepted, disclosed, or tampered with on insecure networks (such as the Internet).

When creating an S2C VPN connection, you can configure data encryption and authentication algorithms in a policy.

Table 1 lists the algorithms recommended for S2C VPN in descending order of security.

**Table 1** Parameters for configuring an S2C VPN policy
Parameter		Description
IKE Policy	Version	v2 v1 (v1 has low security. If the device supports v2, v2 is recommended. For VPN connections set up using SM series cryptographic algorithms, only v1 is supported.) The default value is v2.
	Authentication Algorithm	Hash algorithm used for authentication. The following algorithms are supported: SHA2-512 SHA2-384 SHA2-256 MD5(Insecure. Not recommended.) SHA1(Insecure. Not recommended.) By default, the SHA2-256 algorithm is used.
	Encryption Algorithm	The following encryption algorithms are supported: AES-256-GCM-16 (supported only by Enterprise Edition VPN) AES-128-GCM-16 (supported only by Enterprise Edition VPN) AES-256(Insecure. Not recommended.) AES-192(Insecure. Not recommended.) AES-128(Insecure. Not recommended.) 3DES(Insecure. Not recommended.) The default value is AES-128.
	DH Algorithm	The following algorithms are supported: Group 21 Group 20 Group 19 Group 16 Group 15 Group 14(Insecure. Not recommended.) Group 5(Insecure. Not recommended.) Group 2(Insecure. Not recommended.) Group 1(Insecure. Not recommended.) By default, Group 15 is used.
IPsec Policy	Authentication Algorithm	Hash algorithm used for authentication. The following algorithms are supported: SHA2-512 SHA2-384 SHA2-256 MD5(Insecure. Not recommended.) SHA1(Insecure. Not recommended.) By default, the SHA2-256 algorithm is used.
IPsec Policy	Encryption Algorithm	The following encryption algorithms are supported: AES-256-GCM-16 AES-128-GCM-16 AES-256(Insecure. Not recommended.) AES-192(Insecure. Not recommended.) AES-128(Insecure. Not recommended.) 3DES(Insecure. Not recommended.) The default value is AES-128.

P2C VPN uses the SSL/TLS protocol for encryption to ensure data confidentiality and integrity and prevent the data from being intercepted, disclosed, or tampered with on insecure networks (such as the Internet).

Table 2 lists the commercial cryptographic algorithms supported by P2C VPN.

**Table 2** Parameters for configuring algorithms used in P2C VPN
Parameter	Description
Authentication Algorithm	SHA2-384 SHA384
Encryption Algorithm	AES-256-GCM-16 AES-128-GCM-16

PFS

Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) ensures that the compromise of the keys of an IPsec tunnel does not affect the security of other tunnels by leveraging that the keys of these tunnels are irrelevant to each other. By default, the PFS function is enabled for S2C VPN.

Each IPsec VPN connection consists of at least one IPsec tunnel, each of which uses an independent set of keys to protect user traffic.

S2C VPN supports the following algorithms:

DH group 1 (This algorithm is insecure. Exercise caution when using it.)
DH group 2 (This algorithm is insecure. Exercise caution when using it.)
DH group 5 (This algorithm is insecure. Exercise caution when using it.)
DH group 14
DH group 15
DH group 16
DH group 19
DH group 20
DH group 21

Figure 1 PFS

Anti-replay

Anti-replay uses sequence numbers to protect IPsec encrypted packets against replay attacks, which are initiated by repeatedly sending intercepted data packets. By default, the anti-replay function is enabled for the VPN service.

Figure 2 Replay attack