Cipe?

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Mar 31 22:34:12 UTC 2004


On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:21:00PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:
> For from being a future possibility in extras, I would have thought lack 
> of cipe support would be a showstopper bug.

See the detailed security analysis of the CIPE protocol that was linked
off places like lwn.net. Switching to IPSec is strongly recommended.

You could fix CIPE, but it wouldnt be CIPE compatible if it the security
design flaws were resolved.

Alan





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