TCP-AO (RFC 5925) Support

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On 19 Sep 2020, at 22:02, Scheffenegger, Richard wrote:

Hi,

> I'm afraid to tell you, that andre left the project, and that branch 
> is (afaik) not actively worked on (as also seen by the timestamp of 
> the last update)
>
> The last update mentions a few missing pieces for full -AO support. 
> But probably a good basis to continue this work, only any merge 
> conflicts with the current codebase are resolved.

I had worked on a bit on TCP-AO at two points in time when people were 
keen on it but all parties always somehow lost interest in it (and some 
by now have done it internally, I am sure).  I am not really keen on it 
as AO is a bit of a horrible RFC but if there is interest to have this 
in FreeBSD I’d at least be happy to find my old notes again.

/bz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-transport at freebsd.org 
> <owner-freebsd-transport at freebsd.org> On Behalf Of Kaykhosrow Parsi
> Sent: Freitag, 18. September 2020 15:38
> To: freebsd-transport at freebsd.org
> Cc: Piotr Galecki <piotr_galecki at affirmednetworks.com>; John Maroun 
> <john_maroun at affirmednetworks.com>
> Subject: Re: TCP-AO (RFC 5925) Support
>
>
> Hi
>
> My company wants to use Freebsd to  support TCP-AO . As far as I can 
> see it was in Freebsd road map
>
> https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2013-01-2013-03.html#TCP-AO-Authentication-Option
>
> and there is a development branch for it 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/user/andre/tcp-ao/
>
> . Can somebody tell us what the status of this feature is ? Is this 
> feature ready to use or still needs some work done ?
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Kay--
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