SSTP and SSL question

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I typed msconfig yesterday to check some things and noticed in my system configuration/services that 'secure socket tunneling protocol' had a status of 'stopped'. It was set to manual so I've now set it to automatic and have restarted it, so it's status is now 'running'. I don't know why it was stopped, maybe I changed it for some reason. But it would have been in that status for a long time.

Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) is a form of VPN tunnel that provides a mechanism to transport PPP or L2TP traffic through an SSL 3.0 channel. SSL provides transport-level security with key-negotiation, encryption and traffic integrity checking. The use of SSL over TCP port 443 allows SSTP to pass through virtually all firewalls and proxy servers except for authenticated web proxies. SSTP servers must be authenticated during the SSL phase.

Whenever I've used SSL on port 563 and an ssl address for usenet, I've had no problem, neither have I had any problem when securely paying for things, the padlock comes up. What I'm wondering is, would SSTP being stopped have compromised encryption or privacy or made no difference? Is using providers like astraweb a form of VPN or nothing to do with VPN?
 
You'd expect it to be stopped.

Its Startup Type should be Manual. The system will then start the service when it actually has a use for it.

I hope you didn't go through all of the other 100+ services flagged as stopped starting them as well?
 
You'd expect it to be stopped.

Its Startup Type should be Manual. The system will then start the service when it actually has a use for it.

I hope you didn't go through all of the other 100+ services flagged as stopped starting them as well?

Hi bremen. Thanks for the reply. Good to know it's meant to be stopped. I'll revert it to manual and stopped then. Nope, I didn't change others.
 
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