wiki:Topics-2023-05-24

Basic info

  • Time: Wednesday 24 May 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

  • 2.6.5 release plans
    in about 3 to 7 weeks from now so anywhere between half june and half july
  • Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.
    Buildbot builds from Gerrit should work now for all workers. Please use''
  • Security assessment of OpenVPN2 codebase.
    dazo has the final report and is reviewing. Will raise any remaining issues.
  • License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues
    current status: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-license-change
    the next step for us is to put in extra effort to try and reach those people that didn't respond or we couldn't reach yet. dazo wanted to look into that but didn't find time, yet.

Topics on standby

  • 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.
  • Website release process woes
    website team claims their solution is 95% done. we'll see.
  • 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.
  • OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.
    We should work on an article to publish some performance results when 2.6 is out as stable. but first press release.
  • 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.
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