-This is the README file for tinc version 0.3.
-Installation instructions may be found in the INSTALL file.
+This is the README file for tinc version 1.0pre3. Installation
+instructions may be found in the INSTALL file.
-tinc is Copyright (C) 1998,99 Ivo Timmermans <zarq@iname.com> and
+tinc is Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 Ivo Timmermans
+<itimmermans@bigfoot.com>, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net> and
others. For a complete list of authors see the AUTHORS file.
-This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay@mincom.oz.au)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more details.
-This version of tinc relies on the GNU Multi-Precision Library
-(gmp). This library is available from your nearest GNU mirror. Please
-install this first even before trying to run configure. If you don't
-do this, configure will (hopefully) mention it to you.
+
+Security statement
+------------------
+
+In august 2000, we discovered the existence of a security hole in all
+versions of tinc up to and including 1.0pre2. This had to do with the
+way we exchanged keys. Since then, we have been working on a new
+authentication scheme to make tinc as secure as possible. The current
+version uses the OpenSSL library and does authentication in much the
+same way as the SSH protocol does.
+
+Cryptography is a hard thing to get right. We cannot make any
+guarantees. Time, review and feedback are the only things that can
+prove the security of any cryptographic product. If you wish to review
+tinc or give us feedback, you are stronly encouraged to do so.
+
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+Since 1.0pre3, we use OpenSSL for all cryptographic functions. So you
+need to install this library first; grab it from
+http://www.openssl.org/. We recommend version 0.9.5 or better. If
+this library is not installed on you system, configure will fail. The
+manual in doc/tinc.texi contains more detailed information on how to
+install this library.
+
+
+Features
+--------
This version of tinc supports multiple virtual networks at once. To
use this feature, you may supply a netname via the -n or --net
options. The standard locations for the config files will then be
-/etc/tinc/<net>/.
+/etc/tinc/<net>/. Because of this feature, tinc will send packets
+directly to their destinations, instead of to the uplink. If this
+behaviour is undesirable (for instance because of firewalls or other
+restrictions), please use an older version of tinc (I would recommend
+tinc-0.2.19).
-In this version, MAC addresses are stripped off before encoding and
-sending a packet. When the packet reaches its destination, the MAC
-addresses are rebuilt again. They then have the form
-FE:FD:aa:bb:cc:dd. aa, bb, cc and dd are taken from the destination
-and source IP address.
+In order to force the kernel to accept received packets, the
+destination MAC address will be set to FE:FD:00:00:00:00 upon
+reception. The MAC address of the ethertap or tun/tap interface must
+also be set to this address. See the manual for more detailed
+information.
tincd regenerates its encryption key pairs. It does this on the first
activity after the keys have expired. This period is adjustable in the
-configuration file, and the default time is 3600 seconds (one
-hour). If you send a USR2 signal to the daemon, it'll regenerate
-immediately.
+configuration file, and the default time is 3600 seconds (one hour).
+
+This version supports multiple subnets at once. They are also sorted
+on subnet mask size. This means that it is possible to have
+overlapping subnets on the VPN, as long as their subnet mask sizes
+differ.
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