Security issues in tinc

[Guus Sliepen]

Hello,

More than a week ago Peter Gutmann contacted us and showed us a writeup
in which he analysed CIPE, VTun and tinc. A few days ago he posted this
to a cryptography mailing list, and someone posted this on Slashdot.
In response we've added a new section to the website dedicated to the
current security issues. Currently, you can find our response to Peter
Gutmann's analysis there:

http://tinc.nl.linux.org/security

I'd like to note that although his analysis sounds very serious, we
believe there is still no easy way to gain access to a VPN created with
tinc, nor is it easily possible to decrypt traffic; it's just that at
some points tinc is currently not as strong as SSH or SSL.

We do plan to address the issues in tinc 2.0, which will use a protocol
incompatible with tinc 1.x.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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