[Babel-users] Question about the status of RFC7298

[justin kilpatrick]

Thank you very much! I did see that repo when I was trying to find
this, but the tagline threw me off.

I'll try and rebase it off of master and see what I can do about
updating it and adding asymmetric key support.

On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Denis Ovsienko <denis at ovsienko.info> wrote:
> ---- On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:25:05 +0100 justin kilpatrick  wrote ----
>>Hello everyone, I've been working on a implementation of Batman-adv
>>with asymmetric key signing/verification of overhead packets for a few
>>months now. I'm not much of a kernel programmer so calling it rough
>>would be generous.
>>
>>I stumbled upon Babel and it's proposed HMAC extension doing my early
>>research but I could never find a repository, I'm wondering if it was
>>ever implemented and if so where I could find it?
>
> Hello Justin.
>
> Yes, there is running code. The Internet-Draft that eventually became RFC 7298 was written at the same time as the code was developed, you can find it in this git repository: https://github.com/Quagga-RE/quagga-RE
>
> Specifically, the commits are listed on this wiki page (rounds 5 and 6): https://github.com/Quagga-RE/quagga-RE/wiki/hashes
>
> As far as software licences go, this was a GPL contribution to a GPL software if that helps. I don't remember when I ran this code last time, unfortunately. When it was developed in 2012-2014, it was working fine. If you want to debug it on wire, tcpdump can print the TLVs from RFC 7298.
>
> --
>     Denis Ovsienko
>
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