Tinc Cipher and Digest question

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 08:49:06PM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:

> A question about the tinc Cipher= and Digest= values:
> 
> Do these values absolutely need to be identical on both "sides" for the 
> connection to work? Or does it only affect the outgoing side of the 
> packets but not the receive?

They do not have to be identical. It only affects outgoing packets.

> For example three nodes, two with ConnectTo= to Hub H, and on host A I 
> have a hosts/H and hosts/B entry with:
> 
> Cipher=blowfish
> Digest=sha1
> 
> But on host B I have a hosts/H and hosts/A entry with:
> 
> Cipher=aes
> Digest=sha256
> 
> (And worst case like on Hub H hosts/A and hosts/B with Cipher=none, 
> Digest=none)

This is fine.

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