Prepared Issue OpenVPN 2.5.5 , a package for creating virtual private networks, which allows you to organize an encrypted connection between two client machines or ensure the operation of a centralized VPN server for the simultaneous operation of several clients. OpenVPN code spreads under the GPLv2 license, ready-made binary packages are formed for Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Rhel and Windows.
- Translation into the discharge of outdated 64-bit ciphers subject to SWeet32 attack, postponed to branch 2.7.
- in Windows version provided by default network address for an emulated DHCP server, which makes it possible to use subnet / 30 required to connect to OpenVPN Cloud.
- In assemblies for Windows included mandatory support for algorithms based on elliptic curves (the ability to build with OpenSSL without supporting elliptic curves is discontinued).
- When assembling using the MSVC compiler, the command stream protection (CFI, Control-Flow Integrity) and protection against Spectre class attacks are enabled.
- For Windows assemblies, the OpenSSL configuration file is returned (% Installdir% sslopensl.cfg), which is necessary to work on some hardware tokens that require special settings for OpenSSL.
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