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Hello, I just read this document, especially the section about Tinc : http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/linux_vpn.txt It's an old one, but i would like to know the state of the Tinc security level for now. I don't scared about possible security weakness of Tinc because i only use it over our internal operator network (MPLS), but maybe one day will come the need to connect a remote node (over the &quot...

...12 at 5:04 PM, Sam Flint <harmonicnm7h at gmail.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have experience with tinc vpn? > > It was not looked on particularly favorably in a comparison some years > ago by well known cryptographer Peter Gutmann: > http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/linux_vpn.txt > > Admittedly, that review was from 2003. However, one of the things > that post discusses in length, and does a great job of illustrating, > is that security software like VPNs are difficult to get right, and > very easy to get wrong. > > OpenVPN seems to have emerged as...

Richard Atterer wrote: >On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:00:58PM +0100, I.R. van Dongen wrote: > > >>You might want to check tinc (http://tinc.nl.linux.org) >> >> > >I strongly recommend *not* to use tinc. ><http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/249142> illustrates that the >authors didn't have enough expertise to build a secure tool 2 years ago.