Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 6 December 2023 at 13:00 CEST (11:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

• New: spam on forums.

  • "It just keeps coming. We need a solution."
  • "Asked pippin_ if he could maybe get attention from ecrist to try and solve this."

• Updated: Website release process woes

  • "Website team continues to report that they are on the verge of launching the new stuff."
  • "But there is a release freeze planned for last weeks of December so we may not actually get it this year."

• Updated: TLS 1.0 PRF problem

  • "A patch for this has been created and it needs reviews."

• Updated: License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues

  • "For new contributions the new license already applies."
  • "The --tls-export-cert code was removed, and plaisthos will reimplement it."
  • "Then it is up to dazo to review things so we can work on finalizing this."
  • "One of the last tasks is reviewing if remaining items are trivial patches, and maybe get legal advice on those if necessary."

• New: OpenVPN 2.6.9 release

  • "After --export-peer-cert/--tls-export-cert issue is clarified and code merged, we feel we're ready for a new release."
  • "Tentatively next week."

• Donations for OpenVPN community

  • "There is currently no place to donate money to the community."
  • "The question is, do we want to allow donations? The answer is yes."
  • "We need to figure out how to deal with that legally, and what payment methods to accept and how."
  • "Probably credit card is a must. Maybe PayPal as well. Bitcoin seems to encounter some resistance in the discussions."
  • "We definitely do not want the donation thing to be forced - have a mechanism to do it, but keep it out of the way."
  • "Random things yelled out (to investigate): legal entity? stripe? PayPal? credit card? open collective? GitHub sponsors? Linux foundation? sf conservancy?"

• Tunnelcrack progress TunnelCrack community wiki article

  • "Current status: when mitigations start appearing we will mention them in meeting notes."

• OpenVPN community meetup 2024

  • "Naming: We decided to rename from 'Hackathon' to 'OpenVPN community meetup'. This has a more open spirit to it, as we want to encourage developers and those interested in contributing to feel welcome."
  • "Where: Karlsruhe, Germany. It is a relatively central location in Europe and is fairly easily reachable by train. A meeting location is yet to be arranged."
  • "When: At the moment tentatively set to 20-22 September 2024."
  • "Who: We'll do an open invitation to openvpn-devel mailing list, but also CC: specifically past attendees and people of interest."
  • "Shirts: There is plenty of time still to prepare a shirt design."

• Static-key mini how-to is outdated.

  • "This page is outdated badly: Static Key Mini How-To"
  • "Company will send this to tech writer to redo based on GitHub doc info and also retain a link to that GitHub doc."
  • "Having a simple guide online will help adoption."

• 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 GitHub Issue #595"
  • "Update: will be picked up by selva when he has time."

• security@openvpn.net 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@openvpn.net."
  • "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 the 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 thing 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."