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Date:      Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:27:51 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   VIMAGE and OpenVPN idea...
Message-ID:  <3947.1315171671@critter.freebsd.dk>

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Here is an idea for an interesting little project:

Imagine a firewall where all the external interfaces are
confined in a jail which has no IP-connectivity to the
rest of the machine.

Start OpenVPN outside the jail, have it setup a two-way pipe
and fork a childprocess, which attaches to the jail and performs
out all public-side socket operations inside the jail, passing
only the raw encrypted packets over the pipe.

Tada:  Nothing in the jail can be hacked...

Only problem is:  OpenVPN doesn't know this trick.

But how hard could that be ?

Somebody[tm] should do that...


-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe
Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.



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