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| 6f02e7 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-01-29 06:40:08 | 1 | # Basic info |
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| 3 | - **Time:** Wednesday 20 September 2023 at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UTC) |
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| 4 | - **Place:** #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network |
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| 6 | # Topics |
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| 8 | ## Current topics |
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| 10 | - **Security assessment of OpenVPN2 codebase.** |
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| 11 | *Update: Publishing this is currently being handled, it requires some preparation and internal reviews that are ongoing.* |
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| 13 | - **Hackathon t-shirts** |
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| 14 | *Novaflash remembered just in time to arrange this. Matt came up with this design: [https://crashed.computer/shirt2023.jpg](https://crashed.computer/shirt2023.jpg) |
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| 15 | Back of shirt will be as usual with all previous locations.* |
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| 17 | - **Hackathon arrangements** |
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| 18 | *See [Hackathon 2023 Info](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Hackathon2023) |
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| 19 | Topics collected and placed in wiki page.* |
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| 21 | - **Tunnelcrack published now** |
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| 22 | [https://tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com](https://tunnelcrack.mathyvanhoef.com) |
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| 23 | *We do see that there are issues here that need to be addressed so we acknowledge it and commit to implementing mitigations. |
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| 24 | We'll put together a draft here [Draft Document](https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/TWa9QJYxSQLjllhUfstlb13T/) |
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| 25 | In the company, there will also be discussions about possible mitigations. Any mitigation plans we can put into the draft and publish it on the community side. |
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| 26 | The company will then reference that document on the main website and contribute/participate in making the mitigations happen.* |
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| 28 | - **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues** |
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| 29 | *Update: Dazo is working to make a full overview of the 'considered trivial' patches, and will then reach out to a legal expert. |
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| 30 | There are some contributors that didn't respond, need to reimplement those items. |
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| 31 | MaxF has volunteered to help with any mbedtls related required changes. |
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| 32 | Plaisthos has volunteered to reimplement tls-export-cert. |
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| 33 | James Bottomley's contribution will be removed as he does not agree to the license change.* |
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| 35 | - **How to handle coverity scans/results by djpig** |
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| 36 | *The idea was to use the company coverity code scanner but there may be licensing issues. |
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| 37 | Also, it turns out there is a free version (Travis CI) that we used in the past but stopped working. |
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| 38 | We should instead focus on getting that free service working again. |
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| 39 | Patch is available for GHA. Just needs to be merged to master.* |
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| 41 | - **Static-key mini how-to is outdated.** |
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| 42 | *This page is outdated badly: [Static Key Mini How-To](https://openvpn.net/community-resources/static-key-mini-howto/) |
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| 43 | Company will send this to tech writer to redo based on [GitHub Doc Info](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst) |
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| 44 | And also retain a link to that GitHub doc. |
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| 45 | Having a simple guide online will help adoption.* |
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| 47 | - **Website release process woes** |
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| 48 | *Website team is working on migrating community downloads content to new CMS system. |
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| 49 | Novaflash pushed them on coming up with a firm date, getting tired of this.* |
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| 51 | ## Topics on standby |
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| 53 | - **OpenVPN release process topics** |
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| 54 | *There was a request in [GitHub Issue #397](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/397) to have releases on GitHub as well. |
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| 55 | Djpig seems to think it would be fairly doable to copy/paste that info to GitHub as well. |
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| 56 | We could do this during a next release.* |
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| 58 | - **OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.** |
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| 59 | *Tests should cover: GRE, IPSec, userland, DCO |
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| 60 | Linux, FreeBSD, Windows |
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| 61 | Requires time to be dedicated to doing this |
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| 62 | When time available will do it* |
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| 64 | - **What's going on with new taskbar icons?** |
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| 65 | *Matt provided icons in [GitHub Issue #595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595) |
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| 66 | **Update:** Will be picked up by Selva when he has time.* |
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| 68 | - **Security@openvpn.net mailing list** |
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| 69 | *Company is trying to get to SOC2 compliance. |
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| 70 | Probably will need a simple NDA to be signed by recipients of emails to security@openvpn.net |
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| 71 | Company guy took standard NDA we use for contractors, suggests to use that. |
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| 72 | Novaflash thinks we should review that first to see if it's really suitable or not, community members are not contractors after all.* |
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| 74 | - **Another key signing topic** |
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| 75 | *Company switched EV code signing to CloudHSM, this is the same cert type we use for driver signing, is also suitable for binary signing. |
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| 76 | In the future, we could possibly switch community to that same key. Saves having to maintain 2 different keys. |
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| 77 | Depends on how hard/easy it is to access company key signing thing from community infrastructure. |
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| 78 | Also no high priority at the moment, we have a working solution now.* |
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| 80 | - **SBOM topic** |
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| 81 | *Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a software bill of materials. Answer was no. |
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| 82 | Coincidentally, in OpenVPN Inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do. |
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| 83 | When we pick up this task we can coordinate on it.* |
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| 85 | - **Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.** |
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| 86 | *Mattock made a new forums system that runs on Rocky Linux 8 as agreed with Ecrist. |
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| 87 | Ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown.* |
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| 89 | - **Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt** |
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| 90 | *Novaflash will pick this up at some point.* |
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| 92 | - **[OpenVPN Quickstart](https://openvpn.net/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/) will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.** |
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| 93 | *Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff. |
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| 94 | Novaflash will pick this up again as time permits and other more important topics are done.* |
