RE: CRC32 - thoughts on Gutmann response

"James Yonan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.cipe
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I'm not sure if a did read somewhere or did just imagine it, but is 
> OpenVPN a CIPE fork? Maybe it's time to "merge" or something? Is this 
> "possible"? I'm not sure but would like to listen to the oppinions coming 
> from the maillist  because i consider CIPE as a protocol and OpenVPN only 
> a software using networking facilities already well known as well the 
> cryptographic resources like TLS.

No, OpenVPN is not a CIPE fork, however the TAP-Win32 kernel driver which
OpenVPN uses on Windows is a fork of the CIPE kernel driver.  The kernel
driver provides the virtual networking facilities, and is not used for crypto
or security functions.

James


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