Securing tinc config files

Yazeed Fataar
2016-01-24T11:40:53Z

Hi Guus

Yeah I kinda thought of that only once I hit the "Send" button .... I
guess
I have two options ,

1. Manage my own server with public ip address
2. Trust my VPS provider LOL....

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Yazeed Fataar
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 01:59:19PM +0300, Yazeed Fataar wrote:
>
> > So based of this , having your central tinc server in VPS Provider ,
will
> > allow potentially the provider to replicate your config files and thus
> > exposing all your remote sites connected. My situation I face is all
my
> > remote sites have dynamic addresses ,and in order for me to create a
> > connection point between the sites is to have a central server in
cloud
> > with public address. Therefor the VPS seems like the cheapest option
and
> it
> > works well.. its the security part I have concerns with.
>
> Tinc can work with dynamic addresses as well, as long as you have one
> node with a fixed domain name, that is fine. Maybe a dynamic DNS service
> can work for you?
>
> > There was a option I was thinking of using is creating a encrypted
> > partition that I will need to manually decrypt once the server is
booted.
> > This partition will contain the "/etc/tinc" directory. In
this case the
> if
> > someone had to compromise my server they would first need to decrypt
my
> > encrypted partition.
>
> That is only the case when the server is down. If they compromise it
> while it is running, you will already have unlocked the encrypted
> partition and they can still read it.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>      Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
>
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