[GIT PULL] DTLS and other improvements to openconnect

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos nmav at gnutls.org
Mon Feb 3 09:34:51 EST 2014


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:41 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:
>> Still the most important addition is the support for AES-GCM, which is
>> not only better to AES-CBC due to side-channels, but is also more
>> UDP-friendly as it requires no padding and has a shorter nonce.
>> They are available from:
>> git://gitorious.org/openconnect-x/openconnect-x.git privacy-improvements
> Please add the --pfs option to the man page too.

Updated.

> And shouldn't it affect
> the DTLS setup too?

The DTLS channel's key depends on a key which has been established
with PFS, so if the server does not save the session keys somewhere,
it is ok.

> It probably also wants an openconnect_set_pfs()
> function in the library, since we now support actually making
> connections from the library too?

Added in a followup commit as well as its JNI counterpart.

regards,
Nikos



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