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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-18 00:02:43 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190718000243-okz4s9xao1r1tfnx
Document bug in mandos-keygen which strips white space from passwords

Passwords, as read by mandos-keygen when given the --password or -p
options, are stripped of white space from the start and from the end
of the password.  This is because mandos-keygen is a shell script, and
the Bourne Shell "read" builtin does not seem to have a way to avoid
this.  Document this bug.

* manods-keygen.xml (OPTIONS): Document the white space-stripping
                               nature of the --password/-p option, and
                               also note in the description of
                               --passfile and -F that they avoid this
                               behavior.
  (BUGS): Again mention the problem with the --password and -p
          options, and suggest --passfile as a possible workaround.

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  <para id="priority">
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    GnuTLS priority string for the <acronym>TLS</acronym> handshake.
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    The default is
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    <!-- &#x200b; is Unicode ZERO WIDTH SPACE; allows line breaks -->
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    <quote><literal>SECURE128&#x200b;:!CTYPE-X.509&#x200b;:+CTYPE-RAWPK&#x200b;:!RSA&#x200b;:!VERS-ALL&#x200b;:+VERS-TLS1.3&#x200b;:%PROFILE_ULTRA</literal></quote>
 
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    <quote><literal>SECURE128&#8203;:!CTYPE-X.509&#8203;:+CTYPE-RAWPK&#8203;:!RSA&#8203;:!VERS-ALL&#8203;:+VERS-TLS1.3&#8203;:%PROFILE_ULTRA</literal></quote>
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    when using raw public keys in TLS, and
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    <quote><literal>SECURE256&#x200b;:!CTYPE-X.509&#x200b;:+CTYPE-OPENPGP&#x200b;:!RSA&#x200b;:+SIGN-DSA-SHA256</literal></quote>
 
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    <quote><literal>SECURE256&#8203;:!CTYPE-X.509&#8203;:+CTYPE-OPENPGP&#8203;:!RSA&#8203;:+SIGN-DSA-SHA256</literal></quote>
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    when using OpenPGP keys in TLS,.  See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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    >gnutls_priority_init</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry> for the syntax.