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From: Mytril <mytril42@posteo.de>
To: WireGuard mailing list <wireguard@lists.zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic Adresses
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 14:47:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3952fa1c-80e1-dd42-7eaf-5e7fceff3daa@posteo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHmME9qkGpOocxg149rTCsdY5grD3Uq6fxScqH+Q8uDFv9vzLA@mail.gmail.com>

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Mytril <mytril42@posteo.de> wrote:
>> Yes i have written a similar script for the german ubuntuusers.de wiki.
> 
> Care to share?
> 

Yes if you want:
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Baustelle/WireGuard/#Probleme-mit-der-dynamischen-IP

This artikel is work in progress, later it will be accessable under:
https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WireGuard/#Probleme-mit-der-dynamischen-IP

>> If Bob and Alice are two Clients which have an whireguard vpn to each
>> other. Eve could steal the private key of bob and the public key of
>> alice and wait till bob has a disconnect and get a new ip. Than eve
>> could register this ip and have 30 seconds or so access to the private
>> network of alice.
> 
> If Eve has Bob's private key, he will always be able to impersonate
> Bob to anybody. This is by design and not a security vulnerability.
> Your private key is your identity. Just like SSH and a variety of
> other well known protocols.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-11-29 13:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-29 13:05 Mytril
2017-11-29 13:12 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-29 13:35   ` Mytril
2017-11-29 13:40     ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-29 13:44       ` Georg Faerber
2017-11-29 13:46         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-29 13:49           ` Georg Faerber
2017-11-29 14:25         ` Lonnie Abelbeck
2017-11-29 13:47       ` Mytril [this message]
2017-11-29 13:54         ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2017-11-29 14:09           ` Mytril
2017-11-30  8:22             ` Mytril
2017-11-30  8:33               ` Mytril

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