Re: what's wrong with ipsec ?

2010-06-01 Thread Sevan / Venture37
from 47.html

Two bugs in IPsec/HMAC-SHA2 were fixed, resulting in an
incompatibility with the HMAC-SHA-256/384/512 hash algorithms with
previous versions of OpenBSD and other IPsec implementations sharing
the bugs.



Re: what's wrong with ipsec ?

2010-06-01 Thread Gregory Edigarov
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:14:58 +0100
Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote:

 from 47.html
 
 Two bugs in IPsec/HMAC-SHA2 were fixed, resulting in an
 incompatibility with the HMAC-SHA-256/384/512 hash algorithms with
 previous versions of OpenBSD and other IPsec implementations sharing
 the bugs.
 
:-) ok, i see.
now, what are we expected to do? it could be difficult to change
systems on remote end...


-- 
With best regards,
Gregory Edigarov



Re: what's wrong with ipsec ?

2010-06-01 Thread Stephan A. Rickauer
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 17:44:41 +0300
Gregory Edigarov g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua wrote:

 On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 15:14:58 +0100
 Sevan / Venture37 ventur...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  from 47.html
  
  Two bugs in IPsec/HMAC-SHA2 were fixed, resulting in an
  incompatibility with the HMAC-SHA-256/384/512 hash algorithms with
  previous versions of OpenBSD and other IPsec implementations sharing
  the bugs.
  
 :-) ok, i see.
 now, what are we expected to do? it could be difficult to change
 systems on remote end...
 
 

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/upgrade47.html#hmac-sha2

Upgrade both sides together, or switch to another authentication
algorithm during the transition.