Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 27 September 2023 at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

note: next week's meeting cancelled because of hackathon meeting next week

Topics

Current topics

• Security assessment of OpenVPN2 codebase.
  update: publishing this is currently being handled, it requires some preparation and internal reviews that is ongoing.

• Hackathon t-shirts
  update: shirts arrived.
  ​https://crashed.computer/shirt2023.jpg
  back of shirt will be as usual with all previous locations.

• Hackathon arrangements
  See ​https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Hackathon2023
  topics collected and placed in wiki page.

• Tunnelcrack published now ​https://tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com
  we do see that there are issues here that need to be addresses so we acknowledge it and commit to implementing mitigations
  we'll put together a draft here ​https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/TWa9QJYxSQLjllhUfstlb13T/
  in the company there will also be discussions about possible mitigations. any mitigation plans we can put into the draft and publish it on community side.
  company will then reference that document on main website and contribute/participate in making the mitigations happen.

• License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues
  update: dazo is working to make a full overview of the 'considered trivial' patches, and will then reach out to legal expert.
  there are some contributors that didn't respond, need to reimplement those items.
  MaxF has volunteered to help with any mbedtls related required changes.
  plaisthos has volunteered to reimplement tls-export-cert.
  James Bottomley's contribution will be removed as he does not agree to the license change.

• how to handle coverity scans/results
  free coverity open source code scanner now working on openvpn2 codebase again.

• Static-key mini how-to is outdated.
  This page is outdated badly: https://openvpn.net/community-resources/static-key-mini-howto/
  company will send this to tech writer to redo based on ​https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst info
  and also retain a link to that github doc.
  having a simple guide online will help adoption

• Website release process woes
  website team is working on migrating community downloads content to new cms system.
  novaflash pushed them on coming up with a firm date, getting tired of this

Topics on standby

• openvpn release process topics
  there was a request in ​https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/397 to have releases on github as well.
  djpig seems to think it would be fairly doable to copy/paste that info to github as well.
  we could do this during a next release.

• OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.
  tests should cover: gre, ipsec, userland, dco
  linux, freebsd, windows
  requires time to be dedicated to doing this
  when time available will do it

• What's going on with new taskbar icons?
  matt provided icons in ​https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595\\**update: will be picked up by selva when he has time

• security@… mailing list
  company is trying to get to soc2 compliance.
  probably will need a simple nda to be signed by recipients of emails to security@…
  company guy took standard nda we use for contractors, suggests to use that.
  novaflash thinks we should review that first to see if it's really suitable or not, community members are not contractors after all.

• Another key signing topic
  company switched EV code signing to cloudhsm, this is same cert type we use for driver signing, is also suitable for binary signing.
  in future we could possibly switch community to that same key. saves having to maintain 2 different keys.
  depends on how hard/easy it is to access company key signing thingee from community infrastructure.
  also no high priority at the moment, we have a working solution now.

• SBOM topic
  cron2 was asked if openvpn has a software bill of materials. answer was no.
  coincidentally, in openvpn inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do
  when we pick up this task we can coordinate on it.

• Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.
  mattock made a new forums system that runs on rocky linux 8 as agreed with ecrist.
  ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown.

• Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt
  novaflash will pick this up at some point

• https://openvpn.net/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/ will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.
  Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff.
  novaflash will pick this up again as time permits and other more important topics are done.