FOSDEM 2010 lightning talk

[Mike Bentzen]

Hi There,

I would really like to meet Guus, other tinc users/developers and be there for FOSDEM however at this stage, I won't be able to.

I was wondering if it would be possible to record the talk?

Mike

On 04/01/2010, at 12:48 AM, Guus Sliepen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> At FOSDEM 2010 (http://fosdem.org/2010/), I will give a lightning talk titled
> "tinc: the difficulties of a peer-to-peer VPN on the hostile Internet". The
> talk will probably be on Saturday 7th of Februari at 15:20 CET, but this might
> still change.
> 
> If you would like to meet at FOSDEM with me or other persons using or
> developing tinc, just reply to this email.
> 
> The abstract of the talk is:
> 
> "Rather than configuring tunnels, a tinc VPN is more or less specified by its
> endpoints. The tinc daemons will automatically set up tunnels in order to
> create a full mesh network. The problem in today's Internet is that many users
> are trapped behind NAT, and ISPs are known to drop ICMP packets, IP fragments,
> and/or UDP packets, making reliable connections between peers difficult.
> Another problem is how to manage authentication and authorization in a fully
> decentralized, but user-friendly way. In this talk I will look at solutions
> already implemented in tinc and other VPN software, and I look at future work
> to solve the remaining problems."
> 
> -- 
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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