tinc1.1pre10 for Windows

[Daniel Schall]

Hi again,

 

sorry to reply to myself, but I mistakenly reported errors in an incorrect
version of tinc.

 

I tried to build the latest version out of your git repository, but did not
succeed in compiling everything for Windows.

Therefore, I assumed, I still have v1.1pre10 installed.

 

Apparently, a friend of mine succeeded in compiling and replaced the
binaries with the latest from the repository.

I was unaware of that and mistakenly reported errors.

 

I guess the first problem with the linking of the files is obsolete now,
this is definitely caused by the mingw build locally.

 

The problem with replacing ECDSA with ED25199 resulted in running v1.1pre10
of the command line client, but the latest tincd from the repository.

 

Therefore, I am sorry for having reported bugs that do not exist.

I am going to deploy the latest repository version now on all my nodes and
give feedback.

 

 

Regards

 

Daniel Schall

 

From: Daniel Schall [mailto:schall at cs.uni-kl.de] 
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2014 9:37 AM
To: 'tinc-devel at tinc-vpn.org'
Subject: tinc1.1pre10 for Windows

 

Hi,

 

I am a big fan of your project.

Recently, I was trying to upgrade from tinc 1.1pre9 to pre10, and activating
the experimental protocol, but a few things are not working.

 

First of all, required libraries are missing in the windows installer, e.g.
zlib.dll.

Luckily, I still got them lying around from earlier versions (I don't
remember, where I got them exactly.)

I don't recall having these problems with earlier versions, is there a
mistake in the most recent installer?

Or was I just lucky before and always had the libs somewhere on my system?

 

Second, maybe the more interesting/severe problem is:

When trying to run tinc with the option "ExperimentalProtocol = yes", tincd
complains to generate keys with the option "generate-ed25519-keys", but that
option is not available in tinc (the command line client).

The only option I found is "generate-ecdsa-keys", but they do not generate
the correct files.

 

For testing, I ran tincd1.1pre9 with experimental protocol, and this version
complains about missing ECDSA-keys.

I was able to generate them and connect to other nodes, running the same
version.

 

Yet, it seems you changed encryption in pre10 to ED25519 and forgot to
update/expose the correct methods to generate keys.

 

I'd be happy to test pre10 in a mixed Windows/Linux environment, if you
provide precompiled binaries for windows :)

 

 

best regards

 

Daniel Schall

 

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