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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2018-02-18 01:14:23 UTC
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  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 366.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20180218011423-twxv4clb7wvm9fof
Remove dead code.

* plugins.d/mandos-client.d (main/clean_dir_at): Remove dead code.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2018-02-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <year>2019</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      The computers run a small client program in the initial RAM disk
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      environment which will communicate with a server over a network.
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      All network communication is encrypted using TLS.  The clients
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      are identified by the server using a TLS public key; each client
 
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      are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key; each client
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      has one unique to it.  The server sends the clients an encrypted
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      password.  The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients
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      using a separate OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to
 
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      using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to
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      unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can
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      continue booting normally.
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    </para>
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      <para>
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        No.  The server only gives out the passwords to clients which
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        have <emphasis>in the TLS handshake</emphasis> proven that
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        they do indeed hold the private key corresponding to that
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        client.
 
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        they do indeed hold the OpenPGP private key corresponding to
 
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        that client.
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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