At Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:42:03 +1000, James A. Donald wrote: > > Guus Sliepen wrote: > > Peter's write-up was the reason I subscribed to this cryptography > > mailing list. After a while the anger/hurt feelings I had disappeared. > > I knew then that Peter was right in his arguments. Nowadays I can look > > at Peter's write-up more objectively and I can see that it is not as > > ad-hominem as it felt back then, although the whole soundwave paragraph > > still sounds very childish ;) > > > > When tinc 2.0 will ever come out (unfortunately I don't have a lot of > > time to work on it these days), it will probably use the GnuTLS library > > and authenticate and connect daemons with TLS. For performance reasons, > > you want to tunnel network packets via UDP instead of TCP, so hopefully > > there is a working DTLS implementation as well then. > > I have been considering the problem of encrypted channels over UDP or > IP. TLS will not work for this, since it assumes and provides a > reliable, and therefore non timely channel, whereas what one wishes to > provide is a channel where timeliness may be required at the expense of > reliability.
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