Open Source (was Simple SSL/TLS - Some Questions)

[Peter Clay]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Peter Gutmann wrote:

> IP-over-TCP has some potential performance problems, see

Yeah. I hope they won't be too serious. My understanding is that links
with few tunnelled connections and low packet loss work OK.

> >If someone out there wants to write VPN software that becomes widely used,
> >then they should make a free IP-over-TCP solution that works on Windows and
> >Linux which uses password authentication.
> 
> Some guy called Ylonen already did this in 1995 :-).

That's just TCP tunnelling, or are there SSH implementations with virtual
network interfaces that I don't know about?

Pete
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