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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2009-09-22 06:51:04 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20090922065104-il56jyeb1qshfhiz
Restore some poor D-Bus methods who got a bit hastily deleted.  Enable
writing to the "last_checked_ok" property.

* mandos (ClientDBus.CheckedOK, ClientDBus.Enable,
          ClientDBus.StartChecker, ClientDBus.Disable,
          ClientDBus.StopChecker): Restored.
  (ClientDBus.last_checked_ok_dbus_property): Make writing to this
                                              property do
                                              "self.checked_ok()".

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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         |