IPTunnelManager & IPTunnelService
Copyright (c) 2003-2006, Pavel Aronovich
mailto:support@apbsoft.com

I. Install

Launch it setup.exe.

Files:
1. TunnelMng.exe - application IPTunnelManager (GUI, for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP)
2. IPTunnelMngSrv.exe - service application IPTunnelService (for Windows NT/2000/2003/XP)
3. Config.dat - data file
4. Eventlog.txt - information messages
5. Errorlog.txt - error messages

II. Introduction

The program IPTunnelManager is used for IP tunneling with the options for 
compressing and encrypting traffic.
Thus, the program makes it possible to create a secure connection for any 
application or service using TCP/IP (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP, NNTP, SNPP, 
Telnet, etc.). It is especially important for those TCP/IP services and 
applications (for example, FTP, Telnet, various DBMS) that transfer passwords 
openly when establishing a connection between a client and a server. 
IPTunnelManager starts encrypting traffic from the moment when a TCP/IP 
connection is established, that is why all data transferred between a client 
and a server are encrypted. Besides, IPTunnelManager protects transferred data 
from being changed by checking the integrity of the transferred data using 
a 128-bit MAC algorithm.
Data compression provides a significant (not less than 3 times less) decrease 
in the volume of data transferred via the network.
Multithreaded, highly effective, streaming traffic processing produces practically 
no negative influence on the channel capacity.
To create a secure connection, the program does not require opening additional 
ports and it does not transfer keys via the network (as it uses a synchronous 
algorithm to encrypt traffic). In fact, one and the same password is used to 
authorize a client and to encrypt data.
IPTunnelManager can be used as PROXY (Network Address Translation). As IPTunnelManager 
transfers data "on its own", the server process knows nothing about the client 
process.
Algorithms for compressing and encrypting data used in the program are among 
the most fast and effective ones.
