Adam Shostack writes:
| IPSEC is now a Proposed Standard.
| Again, *we need your help*. Cypherpunks write code. Help us make the | internet safe for personal privacy by contributing to this effort.
How about posting a list of 'things that need doing?' I assume one is floating around, possibly even with time estimates?
The IETF was challenged by Steve Crocker to be ready for use of IPSEC for the Dallas meeting in December so that no IETFer who wanted to communicate securely with his home site need be insecure.
To accomplish that, we need to produce versions of the security stack for many architectures. Right now, we have AIX and 4.4BSD fairly solidly covered. Less well covered is HPUX. People familiar with code
Could we please share snapshots of any code that exists? Even if it's for a totally different OS, it's still extremely helpful if we're short on time.
like the Trumpet Winsock stack, Linux, or who have access to the
I'm interested in doing/helping with Linux. I also have access to an SGI Indy (less well ready to develop though) and HPUX.
innards of SunOS, Solaris, Windows 95, Mac stacks, and others, and can legitimately release implementations for those platforms, are probably needed. We need serious commitments from people but of course everyone is trying to help everyone else along.
Basically, if you know how to hack kernels and networking code and you have a platform you can work on, we need you.
We also lack work on the key management end of things -- people who can start playing around with implementing Photuris, even on a "toy" basis, would probably be of help.
Perry
Does it make any sense to talk about loopback interface style wedges to convert OS native IP to IPSEC? What about a version of inetd that wraps apps? (I'm about to read the RFC's, so not sure if those suggestions make sense yet.) I really like the idea of using DNS for (public I assume) keys... sdw -- Stephen D. Williams 25Feb1965 VW,OH (FBI ID) sdw@lig.net http://www.lig.net/sdw Consultant, Vienna,VA Mar95- 703-918-1491W 43392 Wayside Cir.,Ashburn, VA 22011 OO/Unix/Comm/NN ICBM/GPS: 39 02 37N, 77 29 16W home, 38 54 04N, 77 15 56W Pres.: Concinnous Consulting,Inc.;SDW Systems;Local Internet Gateway Co.;28May95