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by snom370 5758 days ago
Still, if OpenVPN drops packets lacking the HMAC packet authentication without processing them further, then either

1) the guy would also need the HMAC key, or 2) the zero-day is in the code that looks at the HMAC signature.

It's not that I only count on this for security, but it's a matter of reducing the attack surface. Likewise, I don't have passwordless guest accounts on all my servers, since that would make the attack surface even greater.