On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 10:14 AM Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> to copy the reply from Steffan over to openvpn-users...
>
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 08:43:49PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> > (copying in openvpn-devel, as this is something Steffan will want to
> > see...)
> [..]
> > Possibly this is when the first packet is sent by the client or when
> > the first packet comes in for decryption - "man EVP_CipherUpdate" says
> > that this is for encryption or decryption.
>
> Steffan Karger:
> > This very much sounds like an old OpenSSL bug for which we added a
> > workaround in this commit:
> > https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/commit/13de0103e
> >
> > This typically occurred with the OpenSSL version shipped with Ubuntu
> > 12.04, which had a buggy AEAD interface.
> >
> > Either upgrading your OpenSSL or your OpenVPN to a recent version should
> > be sufficient to make it work.
>
> -> so, upgrade to OpenVPN 2.4.6, or see if there is an Ubuntu upgrade
> to OpenSSL.  Or upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04...
>
Sound to me also like that. Though I will be phasing out Ubuntu 12.04 in
favor of Debian9, thus no need to bother.
Thanx for the feedback!

>
> gert
> --
> "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you
>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never
> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
>                              Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh
> Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> g...@greenie.muc.de
>
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