[Announcement] Tinc version 1.1pre11 released

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Tue Jan 13 17:38:37 CET 2015


On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:10:48AM -0700, Lance Fredrickson wrote:

> Allowing tinc to run without RSA keys is a very big
> bonus for us embedded device users. We have a limited amount of nvram space
> for storage (tomato firmware).  RSA keys took up quite a bit, so being able
> to run using only ED25519 makes tinc very appealing for this platform, and
> saves tons of space for more nodes or other things.

Interesting. Do these devices not have a writable filesystem, or is
there some other reason you store the keys in nvram?

In any case, the current version in git also allows you to compile tinc
without OpenSSL, saving disk space as well :)

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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