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DTLS Support in UDP

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#10,584 opened on Mar 31, 2020

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Description

I see that there is an alpha version of UDP support in envoy, thank you for implementing that. We were wondering whether there is also DTLS or some other security scheme implemented for UDP as well? I looked through your UDP commits but I could not find mention to it.

I think this also addresses this issue https://github.com/Kong/kuma/issues/239 , however do not use Kuma but instead use Envoy directly.

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Investigate the existing UDP support in Envoy and propose an implementation of DTLS using OpenSSL or BoringSSL's DTLS capabilities.
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