POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Fun with cryptography : Re: Fun with cryptography Server Time
7 Sep 2024 13:26:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Fun with cryptography  
From: Invisible
Date: 8 Jul 2008 10:59:54
Message: <487380ea$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:

> It appears the report was written by somebody other than the author. But 
> then, comments like "OpenVPN seems to be using SSL" make me suspicious. 
> As does the fact that SSL and TLS both run over TCP, yet OpenVPN seems 
> to be using UPD. That looks like a big enough deviation from the 
> standard that I'm left wondering how many design decisions have been 
> made with potential security implications.
> 
> It's not like OpenVPN just calls the OpenSSH crypto library to do its 
> bidding; it looks like a complete new implementation.

Wikipedia claims OpenVPN uses the OpenSSL library.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN

Still unclear how it runs SSL over UDP...

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