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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-09 08:20:24 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.594 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 325.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150709082024-eitu9mav45lefl75
mandos-client: Add --dh-params FILE option.

* plugins.d/mandos-client.c: Added --dh-params FILE option.
  (init_gnutls_global): New "dhparamsfilename" argument.  All callers
                        changed.  Read and use Diffie-Hellman
                        parameters from it.  Bug fix:  check for error
                        when opening seckeyfile for the second time.
  (init_gnutls_session): Remove unnecessary call to
                         gnutls_dh_set_prime_bits();
  (main): New variable "dh_params_file".
  (main/argp_options): Added "--dh-params" option.
  (main/parse_opt): - '' -
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (SYNOPSIS): Add --dh-params option.
  (OPTIONS): Document --dh-params option and document that the
             --dh-bits options is potentially overridden by the
             --dh-params option.

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network-protocol.txt
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The Mandos server announces itself as a Zeroconf service of type
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"_mandos._tcp". The Mandos client sends a line of text where the first
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whitespace-separated field is the protocol version, which currently is
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"1".  The client and server then start a TLS protocol handshake with a
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slight quirk: the Mandos server program acts as a TLS "client" while
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the connecting Mandos client acts as a TLS "server".  The Mandos
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client must supply an OpenPGP certificate, and the fingerprint of this
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certificate is used by the Mandos server to look up (in a list read
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from a file at start time) which binary blob to give the client.  No
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other authentication or authorization is done by the server.
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| Mandos Client                              |     | Mandos Server |
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|--------------------------------------------+-----+---------------|
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| Connect                                    |     |               |
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| "1\r\n"                                    | ->  |               |
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| TLS handshake                              | <-> | TLS handshake |
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| OpenPGP public key (part of TLS handshake) | ->  |               |
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|                                            | <-  | Binary blob   |
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|                                            |     | Close         |