From smb@cs.columbia.edu Fri Jul 6 02:42:49 2018 From: Steven Bellovin To: cypherpunks-legacy@lists.cpunks.org Subject: new tech report on easy-to-use IPsec Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:42:49 +0000 Message-ID: <172289265508.3881296.8164605996170138802.generated@mail.pglaf.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2368197380850017347==" --===============2368197380850017347== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Folks on this list may be interested in a new tech report: Shreyas Srivatsan, Maritza Johnson, and Steven M. Bellovin. Simple-VPN: Simp= le IPsec configuration. Technical Report CUCS-020-10, Department of Computer = Science, Columbia University, July 2010.=20 http://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=3D1433 The IPsec protocol promised easy, ubiquitous encryption. That has never happe= ned. For the most part, IPsec usage is confined to VPNs for road warriors, la= rgely due to needless configuration complexity and incompatible implementatio= ns. We have designed a simple VPN configuration language that hides the unwa= nted complexities. Virtually no options are necessary or possible. The admini= strator specifies the absolute minimum of information: the authorized hosts, = their operating systems, and a little about the network topology; everything = else, including certificate generation, is automatic. Our implementation incl= udes a multitarget compiler, which generates implementation-specific configur= ation files for three different platforms; others are easy to add. We hope to have the code up on Sourceforge soon. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo(a)metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Eugen* Leitl leitl http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --===============2368197380850017347==--