Hi all,
since a big version jump of OpenVPN is around the corner --> https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/StatusOfOpenvpn25 i was thinking about to ask into the round what you guys and girls are thinking about the new upcoming version and potential new features ?
Installed it currently and checked out the crypto a little and found there some new nice toys .
Some first insides:
- New AEAD 256-Bit cipher CHACHA20-POLY1305 for the data channel.
- Several new HMACs
From the BLAKE2 family:
BLAKE2b512 512 bit digest size (optimized for 64 bit systems)
BLAKE2s256 256 bit digest size (optimized for 32 bit systems)
From the Keccak family:
SHA3
SHA3-224 224 bit digest size
SHA3-256 256 bit digest size
SHA3-384 384 bit digest size
SHA3-512 512 bit digest size
SHAKE
SHAKE128 128 bit digest size
SHAKE256 256 bit digest size
Which currently simply works.
Does someone have additional ideas for new 2.5 features to test ?
Some additional links + benchmarks:
https://cr.yp.to/mac.html
https://bench.cr.yp.to/results-sha3.html