On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 01:36:28PM +0100, werner.jae...@t-systems.com wrote: > Hello,
Hi > > no, I've not talked to him so far, but it's really good to hear that. I'm > going to contact him right now. Please keep me informed about what he had to say. > > The primary reason why I created this package is because my main package > ?l2tp-ipsec-vpn-0.9.2? depends on a PPPD that is capable of handling EAP_TLS > authentication. Ah I understand, then it will perhaps make sense to build the package although it may not live for long... > > Kind Regards > > Werner Jaeger Kind regards Harald Jenny > > ________________________________________ > From: Harald Jenny [har...@a-little-linux-box.at] > Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:20 PM > To: Jaeger, Werner; 602...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#602503: ITP: ppp-2.4.5-eaptls-mppe -- PPP daemon with > EAP-TLS authentication support > > On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 12:48:32PM +0100, Werner Jaeger wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Werner Jaeger <werner.jae...@t-systems.com> > > > > Package name : ppp-2.4.5-eaptls-mppe > > Version : 0.98 > > Upstream Author : Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>, Jan Just Keijser > > <janj...@nikhef.nl> > > URL : http://samba.org/ppp/ > > License : BSD > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : PPP daemon with EAP-TLS authentication support > > > > This package contains an extended Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon > > with support for EAP-TLS authentication. > > > > The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP; RFC 3748) is a > > security protocol that can be used with PPP. It provides a means > > to plug in multiple optional authentication methods. > > > > Transport Level Security (TLS; RFC 2246) provides for mutual > > authentication, integrity-protected ciphersuite negotiation and > > key exchange between two endpoints. It also provides for optional > > MPPE encryption. > > > > EAP-TLS (RFC 2716) incapsulates the TLS messages in EAP packets, > > allowing TLS mutual authentication to be used as a generic EAP > > mechanism. It also provides optional encryption using the MPPE > > protocol. > > > > This authentication method can be used in both client or server mode. > > Hello, > > as far as I know Jan Just Keijser is already talking with upstream ppp to > integrate his patch into mainline, have you talked with him prior to filing > this ITP? > > Kind regards > Harald Jenny > > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: > > http://lists.debian.org/20101105114832.7272.37688.report...@localhost6.localdomain6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
