Re: [cryptography] very little is missing for working BTNS in Openswan

2013-09-13 Thread Nico Williams
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:28:56PM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: Stop making crypto harder! I think you're arguing that active attacks are not a concern. That's probably right today w.r.t. PRISMs. And definitely wrong as to cafe shop wifi. The threat model is the key. If you don't care about

Re: [cryptography] very little is missing for working BTNS in Openswan

2013-09-12 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Nico Williams wrote: Note: you don't just want BTNS, you also want RFC5660 -- IPsec channels. You also want to define a channel binding for such channels (this is trivial). To summarize: IPsec protects discrete *packets*, not discrete packet *flows*. This means that

Re: [cryptography] very little is missing for working BTNS in Openswan

2013-09-12 Thread Taral
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: Note: you don't just want BTNS, you also want RFC5660 -- IPsec channels. You also want to define a channel binding for such channels (this is trivial). I am not convinced. It's supposed to be *better than nothing*.