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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-10-05 20:13:01 UTC
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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-03-05">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-07-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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    <copyright>
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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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
 
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        <option>--dh-params <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option>
 
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        <option>--delay <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></option>
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          <para>
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            Sets the number of bits to use for the prime number in the
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  Default is 1024.
 
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
 
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            selected automatically based on the OpenPGP key.  Note
 
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            that if the <option>--dh-params</option> option is used,
 
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            the values from that file will be used instead.
 
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        <term><option>--dh-params=<replaceable
 
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            Specifies a PEM-encoded PKCS#3 file to read the parameters
 
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            this option is not given, or if the file for some reason
 
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            could not be used, the parameters will be generated on
 
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            Those using servers running under time, power or processor
 
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            constraints may want to generate such a file in advance
 
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            and use this option.
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    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
 
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        <term><envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar></term>
 
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            This environment variable will be assumed to contain the
 
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            directory containing any helper executables.  The use and
 
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      This program does not use any environment variables, not even
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      This program does not use any other environment variables, not
 
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    <title>EXAMPLE</title>
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      <acronym>ICMP</acronym> echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
 
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          RFC 4346: <citetitle>The Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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