X-Git-Url: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~ian/git?p=secnet.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NOTES;h=84453dfbf12cc7abd1bb66267107dfa037b7aae9;hp=dd78b121e97758dfe10fdc7e552c5e77f77dd30f;hb=b1a0f651d803e1c1ff50f559b50de5c2dd6236d4;hpb=ff05a229397c75142725f45cad191ce4a00625ce diff --git a/NOTES b/NOTES index dd78b12..84453df 100644 --- a/NOTES +++ b/NOTES @@ -60,6 +60,17 @@ explicit option. NB packets may be routed if the source OR the destination is marked as allowing routing [otherwise packets couldn't get back from eg. chiark to a laptop at greenend]). +[the even newer plan] + +secnet sites are configured to grant access to particular IP address +ranges to the holder of a particular public key. The key can certify +other keys, which will then be permitted to use a subrange of the IP +address range of the certifying key. + +This means that secnet won't know in advance (i.e. at configuration +time) how many tunnels it might be required to support, so we have to +be able to create them (and routes, and so on) on the fly. + ** VPN-level configuration At a high level we just want to be able to indicate which groups of @@ -259,3 +270,9 @@ Keepalives are probably a good idea. **** Protocol sub-goal 3: send a packet 9) i?,i?,msg0,(send-packet/msg9,packet)_k + +Some messages may take a long time to prepare (software modexp on slow +machines); this is a "please wait" message to indicate that a message +is in preparation. + +10) i?,i?,msg8,A,B,nA,nB,msg?