[URGENT] tinc has a security hole of about 50 million km^2

Ivo Timmermans zarq at spark.icicle.yi.org
Sun Aug 27 15:28:14 CEST 2000


Sending your passphrase encrypted is all fine, but tinc sends the key
with which it was encrypted about a second later... 

Anyone being able to intercept these two requests is authorized on the
VPN.

We need asymmetric authentication _now_.

-- 
Ivo Timmermans
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