Re: [Openvpn-devel] [PATCH v4] Allow changing cipher from a ccd file

[Gert D. <ge...@gr...>]

Hi,

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 10:51:04AM +0200, Steffan Karger wrote:
> As described in msg  <374...@be...> on
> ope...@li..., clients that are compiled with
> --disable-occ (included in --enable-small) won't send an options string.
> Without the options string, the 2.4 server doesn't know which cipher to
> use for poor man's NCP.

Just for the record: we do not need this patch anymore, as Arne's
magic refactoring work has made adding this functionality very trivial
("just permit cipher in ccd/ files") - and that one has been merged
already.

I just found this one in patchwork and thought a bit of commenting
would help transparency :-)

gert
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