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

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Message-ID: <44edfa99-a3a0-4d86-845b-e13c1dff7f2f@openvpn.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:47:07 +0200
From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net>
To: ALOK TIWARI <alok.a.tiwari@...cle.com>
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,
 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v25 01/23] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel
 Offload (ovpn)

Hi Alok,

On 10/04/2025 19:51, ALOK TIWARI wrote:
> 
> 
> 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

Thanks for reporting various typ0s.
Will fix them in the next version.

Regards,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli
OpenVPN Inc.