Re: CRYPT target patch for newer kernel ?

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On Wednesday 2012-08-08 14:25, Arif Hossain wrote:
>
>I've come across many "CRYPT" or similar target patches will encrypt UDP
>or TCP traffic.

And they are mostly pointless..

>1. A simple XOR target(-j XOR --key)
>http://lists.netfilter.org/pipermail/netfilter-devel/2003-May/011532.html

XOR is not really an encryption.

>2. A more robust ENCRYPT/DECRYPT target which will use full crypto api
>of linux kernel:
>http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/seppl/
>"IPSEC/FreeSwan is extremely complicated to use. Due to its strange routing
>scheme it is nearly impossible to use together with routing daemons. IPSEC is
>heavyweight."

Complicated? No, not at all. http://inai.de/2008/02/24
Heavyweight? Neither. The RSS is ~5 MB, most of which is pretty much
glibc anyway.

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