Re: Cipe?

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:18:20PM -0600, Steve Bergman wrote:
> So what was the story on CIPE during all the time that RH was pushing it 
> as their vpn solution?  Were these inherent deficiencies completely 
> unknown until last September?

Yes. Prior to that there had been other minor flaws and these had been
worked on and fixed. Cryptography is a hard problem when it comes to 
getting it right (witness Microsoft PPTP for another example)

Alan