Re: linux-ipsec: organizational lessons from Raleigh

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- To: Henry Spencer <henry%spenford@zoo.toronto.edu> Subject: Re: linux-ipsec: organizational lessons from Raleigh Cc: Linux IPsec <linux-ipsec@clinet.fi>
Date: 03/06/98, 15:15:45

In message <Fri6Mar19981445490500EST%spenford@zoo.toronto.edu>, Henry Spencer w rites:
>A secondary issue there is that a bit of advance interop testing against a
>different implementation -- preferably a *completely* different one, not
>just another JI/AK-derived one like the OpenBSD one -- would have exposed
>the problem that eventually killed our kernel-level interop testing
>altogether (incompatible key-setup conventions that we couldn't figure out
>how to reconcile). Hugh is going to investigate providing for routine
>dissimilar-implementation testing as part of our development setup, but if
>that doesn't pan out, we need to make a special effort to do at least one
>quick test this way during bakeoff preparations. Again, the intention is
>not so much to avoid repeating this particular disaster -- which shouldn't
>recur if we're careful -- but to head off analogous disasters.

In fact, testing against the OpenBSD implementation would have revealed that problem.

• -Angelos

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