On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 05:37:18PM -0700, James Yonan wrote:
> Are there any VPN packages for Linux that use OpenSSL as the underlying
> encryption engine?
>
> I was thinking of a virtual stream-oriented device driver that would
> establish an OpenSSL-based TCP session with another instantiation of
> itself on a remote machine. The VPN would be created by routing IP over
> PPP through the virtual device.
I know that there's a hack to route PPP through SSH-based tunnels, so
the same concept and possibly the same program should work for
OpenSSL-based tunnels too (if you don't just want to stick with SSH,
which might be inconveniet e.g. for license reasons). That program
relays data between a virtual terminal (because that's the kind of
device that the PPP daemon wants to use) and a TCP connection, which
in turn is handled by SSH. Of course what you really want for a VPN
is something datagram-based, not TCP; but in any case it's much better
than nothing.
Please pick the link(s) to appropriate software from the collection at
<URL:http://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/tools.html>; for
OpenSSL-based tunnels, see <URL:http://www.openssl.org/related/
apps.html>. If you manage to put up something that works, please
report it to this mailing list.
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