[Vpn-help] Significant connection stability improvement ...

[Matthew Grooms]

Matthew Grooms wrote:
> All,
> 
> I am very excited to be writing this email as I recently fixed a bug 
> that has been eluding me for the better part of two years. It caused 
> periodic connection instability due to mishandling of computed Diffie 
> Hellman shared secret data. From a user perspective, this bug induced 
> seemingly random disconnects in the form of DPD timeouts or a sudden 
> loss of connectivity. Both of these issues were related to invalid key 
> data being used by a negotiated security association. A new beta has 
> been posted on the download page. If you have experienced connection 
> stability issues in the past, please consider testing this build which 
> also includes a few other platform specific bug fixes. Please see the 
> release notes for more details.
> 

Just pushed out a beta2 with another DH exchange related fix. I didn't 
notice this second, very similar, bug until doing alternate connection 
stability testing with the ASA.

Thanks,

-Matthew