tinc 1.1pre10 "failed to decrypt record" on Windows client
Lance Fredrickson
lancethepants at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 01:15:20 CEST 2014
I also have not been able to get Windows clients to play with Linux ones on
tinc1.1pre10. I sent an email February 11th describing my issue, to which
the maintainer responded. For the time being I'm using 1.1pre9 and hoping
the next release is more Windows friendly.
-Lance
On Apr 18, 2014 5:02 PM, "Tim Eggleston" <tim.lists at eggleston.ca> wrote:
> Tinc newbie here so apologies if this is obvious or has been discussed
> already; I did search but couldn't find anything.
>
> I'm testing tinc 1.1pre10 between a Windows 7 client and Linux server. The
> Linux machine is on the internet and the Windows machine is on my home
> network behind NAT. I have successfully configured a Linux client on my
> home network to communicate with the server already so I know the issue
> isn't the server or my network/NAT config.
>
> When attempting to connect to the server, the Windows client throws a
> "failed to decrypt record" error (output from tincd -D below). Something
> instinctive is saying this is a key material problem -- originally I copied
> and pasted the keys from notepad into my SSH session to transfer them
> between machines, and I wondered if a non-printable character or a Windows
> linebreak had snuck in and messed things up. However I've now copied them
> directly between hosts using pscp.exe so I don't think it can be that. I'm
> using both RSA and ECDSA keys, and I believe it defaults to ECDSA usage in
> this version?
>
> Any ideas appreciated! I can provide configs if necessary but this didn't
> seem like a config problem, per se.
>
> Cheers,
>
> ---tim
>
> **********
>
> Output from tincd -D on the Windows machine:
>
> c:\Program Files (x86)\tinc>tincd -D -d 5 -n mesh1
> tincd 1.1pre10 (Feb 7 2014 22:45:15) starting, debug level 5
> Tap reader running
> {2115B7D7-EFBB-468F-89AE-1818CF14091A} (vpn-mesh1) is a Windows tap device
> Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 655
> Ready
> Trying to connect to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655)
> Connected to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655)
> Sending ID to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655): 0 capricorn 17.3
> Sending 17 bytes of metadata to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655)
> Got ID from silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655): 0 silverthrone 17.3
> Sending ACK to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655): 4 655 358 300000c
> Sending 18 bytes of metadata to silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655)
> Error while decrypting: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)
> Failed to decrypt record
> Closing connection with silverthrone (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 655)
> Could not set up a meta connection to silverthrone
>
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