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Re: Open Source (was Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Crawford)
Thu Oct 9 21:03:18 2003

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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:36:16 -0500
From: Matt Crawford <crawdad@fnal.gov>
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To: Peter Clay <pete@flatline.org.uk>
Cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>,
	cryptography@metzdowd.com

On Thursday, Oct 9, 2003, at 04:31 America/Chicago, Peter Clay wrote:
> If you want a VPN that road warriors can use, you have to do it with
> IP-over-TCP. [...]
> If someone out there wants to write VPN software that becomes widely 
> used,
> then they should make a free IP-over-TCP solution that works on Windows
> and Linux which uses password authentication.

And people will mostly want to run TCP over their VPN.  See "Why TCP 
Over TCP Is A Bad Idea" by Olaf Titz at  
http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html

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