netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v25 01/23] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (ovpn)

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Message-ID: <7bffe8a8-56f6-40e1-90cb-d9589fd41bee@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 23:21:44 +0530
From: ALOK TIWARI <alok.a.tiwari@...cle.com>
To: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@...il.com>, Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>,
        sd@...asysnail.net, ryazanov.s.a@...il.com,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, Xiao Liang <shaw.leon@...il.com>,
        steffen.klassert@...unet.com, antony.antony@...unet.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v25 01/23] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel
 Offload (ovpn)



On 08-04-2025 01:16, Antonio Quartulli wrote:
> Although it wasn't easy to convince the community, `ovpn` implements
> only a limited number of the data-channel features supported by the
> userspace program.
> 
> Each feature that made it to `ovpn` was attentively vetted to
> avoid carrying too much legacy along with us (and to give a clear cut to
> old and probalby-not-so-useful features).
> 

typo - probably

> Notably, only encryption using AEAD ciphers (specifically
> ChaCha20Poly1305 and AES-GCM) was implemented. Supporting any other
> cipher out there was not deemed useful.


Thanks,
Alok