From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 10 23:30:50 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id XAA08343 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:30:50 -0700 Received: from netcom6.netcom.com (netcom6.netcom.com [192.100.81.114]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA08337 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:30:48 -0700 Received: from 192.0.2.1 by netcom6.netcom.com (8.6.12/Netcom) id XAA15353; Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:28:15 -0700 Message-Id: <199508110628.XAA15353@netcom6.netcom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 23:33:51 -0800 From: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPSEC goes to RFC X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.0b29 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Path: hks.net!news-mail-gateway!owner-cypherpunks >From: perry@panix.com ("Perry E. Metzger") >Newsgroups: hks.lists.cypherpunks >Subject: Re: IPSEC goes to RFC >Date: 10 Aug 1995 10:53:31 -0400 >Lines: 32 >Sender: root@hks.net >Message-ID: <199508101452.KAA24637@panix4.panix.com> >NNTP-Posting-Host: bb.hks.net > > >Adam Shostack writes: >> | IPSEC is now a Proposed Standard. >> >> | Again, *we need your help*. Cypherpunks write code. Help us make the >> | internet safe for personal privacy by contributing to this effort. >> >> How about posting a list of 'things that need doing?' I >> assume one is floating around, possibly even with time estimates? > >The IETF was challenged by Steve Crocker to be ready for use of IPSEC >for the Dallas meeting in December so that no IETFer who wanted to >communicate securely with his home site need be insecure. > >To accomplish that, we need to produce versions of the security stack >for many architectures. Right now, we have AIX and 4.4BSD fairly >solidly covered. Less well covered is HPUX. People familiar with code >like the Trumpet Winsock stack, Linux, or who have access to the >innards of SunOS, Solaris, Windows 95, Mac stacks, and others, and can >legitimately release implementations for those platforms, are probably >needed. We need serious commitments from people but of course everyone >is trying to help everyone else along. > >Basically, if you know how to hack kernels and networking code and you >have a platform you can work on, we need you. > >We also lack work on the key management end of things -- people who >can start playing around with implementing Photuris, even on a "toy" >basis, would probably be of help. > >Perry -- -- Lucky Green PGP encrypted mail preferred.