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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-03-06 19:08:59 UTC
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  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 382.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190306190859-wqqjlxjc69p3qqyo
mandos-ctl: Refactor test

* mandos-ctl (TestOptions.assert_command_from_args): Add a client name
                                                     to all options
                                                     which need it.

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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 "2014-06-22">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
 
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      <year>2013</year>
 
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      <year>2014</year>
 
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      <year>2015</year>
 
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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 an OpenPGP key; each client
 
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      are identified by the server using a TLS public 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 the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to
 
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      using a separate 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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  <refsect1 id="introduction">
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    <title>INTRODUCTION</title>
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    <para>
 
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      <!-- This paragraph is a combination and paraphrase of two
 
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           quotes from the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects”. -->
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      You know how it is.  You’ve heard of it happening.  The Man
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      comes and takes away your servers, your friends’ servers, the
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      servers of everybody in the same hosting facility. The servers
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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 OpenPGP private key corresponding to
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        that client.
 
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        they do indeed hold the private key corresponding to that
 
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    <refsect2 id="sniff">
 
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      <title>How about sniffing the network traffic and decrypting it
 
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      later by physically grabbing the Mandos client and using its
 
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      key?</title>
 
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        We only use <acronym>PFS</acronym> (Perfect Forward Security)
 
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        key exchange algorithms in TLS, which protects against this.
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      </para>
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    <title>BUGS</title>
 
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  <refsect1 id="see_also">
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    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
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    <para>
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    <variablelist>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          <ulink url="http://www.recompile.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="https://www.recompile.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
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        </term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>