On 11/06/18 16:20, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > Hi David, > > a while back, Steffan and I were in a (Dutch) meeting discussing documenting > the OpenVPN wire protocol. Someone has made an effort to document it, and has > gotten pretty far, IMO. Before he/we continue, however, we need to make sure > that we can embed this documentation into OpenVPN itself, i.e. the protocol > doc should not be trailing the source code. Now I've read & heard that you > were busy turning the OpenVPN protocol into an RFC. Are you still interested > in doing that? Is OpenVPN Inc still interested in doing that? If so, then it > would save time and effort to combine the two approaches. Do you have time for > that?
I have a draft in progress for an OpenVPN Wire protocol RFC. It is far from complete, but most of the control and data channels are mostly covered. The more tricky areas like user/password authentication as well as static/dynamic challenge and most of the crypto details are not yet covered. But what has been already written needs a thorough review as well. My work method so far has been more like "brain dump approach". Read code for a feature, get some basic understanding of it and dump it into a textual form, formatted and wording it for an RFC target. It is far from perfect and polished, but it's a start. We (community and OpenVPN Inc) are very much interested in getting at least the draft process moving forward. Not sure how suitable this task is as a full blown open "development" process. But I am definitely keen on getting a few more persons willing to be involved in moving this RFC forward. So if you are interested, please get in touch with me and we'll figure out the path forward. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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