[openstack-dev] [VPNaaS] Support for Stronger hashes and combined mode ciphers

Paul Michali pc at michali.net
Tue Jun 14 18:19:20 UTC 2016


I think Kyle polled operators and a few mentioned using VPNaaS for
site-to-site IPSec - do a search in this ML for VPNaaS. AFAIK, no one so
far is stepping up to work on VPNaaS.

Regards,

PCM


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:40 PM Mark Fenwick <mark.fenwick at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> On 06/14/16 10:27, Paul Michali wrote:
> > Certainly the ciphers and hashes could be enhanced for VPNaaS. This would
> > require converting the user selections into options for the underlying
> > device driver, modifying the neutron client (OSC) to allow entry of the
> new
> > selections, updating unit tests, and likely adding some validators to
> > reject these options on drivers that may not support them (e.g. if
> OpenSwan
> > doesn't support an option, you'll want to reject it).
> >
>
> I made some changes and got this working quiet quickly, would need some
> polish.
>
> > There is not an active VPNaaS team any more, so, if this is something
> that
> > you'd like to see, you'll need to provide some sweat equity to make it
> > happen. There are still some people that can core review changes, but
> don't
> > expect much community support for VPNaaS at this time. In fact, I think
> the
> > plan is to archive/mothball/whatever VPNaaS in a few months (it's on
> double
> > secret probation :)), if there is no-one actively supporting it (I'll
> leave
> > to the PTL to define what "support" means - not sure what the
> > qualifications will be to maintain this project).
>
> So I'm curious, does anybody actually use VPNaaS for anything ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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