Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:51:03AM +0100, Peter Stamfest wrote: So do you think it is a waste of time to start such a project? Frankly, yes. Just use the industry-standard IPSEC, don't try and reinvent the wheel yet again and possibly screw up the crypto like M$ did with PPTP. Kris PGP

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Peter Stamfest
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:48:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 11:51:03AM +0100, Peter Stamfest wrote

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Ströder
Peter Stamfest wrote: * IPSec is hard to configure But please give us a reason why you believe that the configuration of "your solution" would be easier. Yes, it's somewhat more complicated than starting setup.exe and just click a "Next" button if it's meant to be really secure. The main

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Sierchio
Michael Strder wrote: Peter Stamfest wrote: * IPSec is hard to configure But please give us a reason why you believe that the configuration of "your solution" would be easier. IPSec doesn't support multicast, doesn't support Mobile IP, etc. It's a point-to-point solution between

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Ströder
If we want to continue this thread I suggest to switch to news:comp.dcom.vpn for not filling up openssl-users with off-topic discussion. Ciao, Michael. __ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-07 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:19:08PM +0100, Peter Stamfest wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:48:01 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested

Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Stamfest
Hello OpenSSL users, I would like to tell you of a project I am currently thinking about. I have done some very preliminary coding and am I thinking about the future of this project. This is a rather brief e-mail, as I would first like to hear some comments. What it is all about: I want a

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Brock Noland
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 2:30 AM Subject: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions Hello OpenSSL users, I would like to tell you of a project I am currently thinking about. I have done some very preliminary coding and am I thinking about

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Ströder
Peter Stamfest wrote: Hello OpenSSL users, [..] * UDP based instead of TCP based (see below for reasons) SSL sits on top of a connection-oriented protocol like e.g. TCP or PPP. Some VPN products use SSL over PPP over UDP. Did you mean that? But what's wrong with IPSec, S/WAN and

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Peter Stamfest
On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael Strvder wrote: Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 11:25:08 +0100 From: Michael Strvder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions Peter Stamfest wrote: Hello OpenSSL users

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Ströder
Peter Stamfest wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael Strvder wrote: SSL sits on top of a connection-oriented protocol like e.g. TCP or PPP. Some VPN products use SSL over PPP over UDP. Did you mean that? What I have in mind is not SSL over UDP. Off course since UDP is not a

Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Peter Stamfest wrote: What I have in mind is not SSL over UDP. It shares the same ideas, though. The problem with SSL for encapsulation of PPP traffic is the retransmit problem. Therefore, there is no "standard" SSL involved in what I think of. However, the crypto/certificate code of openssl

RE: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions

2001-01-05 Thread mark . schoneman
: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:47 AM To: openssl-users Cc: michael Subject: Re: Open VPN - Anybody interested / suggestions Peter Stamfest wrote: On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Michael Strvder wrote: SSL sits on top of a connection-oriented protocol like e.g. TCP or PPP. Some VPN products use SSL over PPP