Re: New extension: CRYPT target

[Gervasio Bernal <gervasiobernal@speedy.com.ar>]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Sun, 21.05.06 15:59, Gervasio Bernal (gervasiobernal@speedy.com.ar) wrote:
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>>Hi all!!!
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> Hi!
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>>After some months of development we have finished this new extension.
>>CRYPT is a new target extension for Netfilter/Iptables that enables the
>>user to encrypt, decrypt and authenticate any IP protocol traffic using
>>the Linux Cryptographic API.
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> [...]
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> I wonder if you are aware that I wrote exactly the same thing a few
> years ago?

Yes, while we were looking for information for our extension we found
your web site, but as we were about to finish it, we decided to continue
doing it. Each job, yours and our, have interesting features, that the
other one doesn't have. It would be good to unify them and obtain
something more robust.
It would be also fantastic that the extension someday (of course there
is much to debug) could be included in Iptables core.

I think the idea of encryption using Iptables is really great!

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> http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/seppl/
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> Lennart
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