I wholeheartedly agree. I often use tinc in "road warrior" scenarios where it is very convenient to be able to connect to the VPN even in extremely hostile network environments (the typical airport/hotel crappy Wi-Fi). I believe Skype is the champion in that category, and we should aspire to do the same.
Hopefully this isn't too off-topic for this thread (it totally is but I'm going to plow on anyway!), but can you give me a quick precis of the benefits that tinc would provide in a road-warrior scenario over something like OpenVPN on tcp/443 (i.e. very unlikely to be blocked anywhere)? The OpenVPN server already has secure routes to everywhere else in my network, so the only connection I'm thinking about here is the remote guy -> server, I'm not really considering the mesh capabilities of tinc in this instance.
The adversary I'm worried about is evil sysadmins/wifi providers as opposed to the NSA.
Tinc is definitely super cool and I have it working in a POC, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth switching over fully.
Cheers! ---tim _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
