/mandos/trunk

To get this branch, use:
bzr branch http://bzr.recompile.se/loggerhead/mandos/trunk

« back to all changes in this revision

Viewing changes to intro.xml

  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-01-21 21:37:44 UTC
  • mfrom: (237.4.39 release)
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140121213744-xu4odolayuxn78wi
Merge from release branch.

Show diffs side-by-side

added added

removed removed

Lines of Context:
intro.xml
1
1
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
2
2
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3
3
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4
 
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-07-20">
 
4
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-01-01">
5
5
<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
6
6
%common;
7
7
]>
32
32
    <copyright>
33
33
      <year>2011</year>
34
34
      <year>2012</year>
35
 
      <year>2013</year>
36
 
      <year>2014</year>
37
 
      <year>2015</year>
38
35
      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
39
36
      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
40
37
    </copyright>
200
197
      </para>
201
198
    </refsect2>
202
199
    
203
 
    <refsect2 id="sniff">
204
 
      <title>How about sniffing the network traffic and decrypting it
205
 
      later by physically grabbing the Mandos client and using its
206
 
      key?</title>
207
 
      <para>
208
 
        We only use <acronym>PFS</acronym> (Perfect Forward Security)
209
 
        key exchange algorithms in TLS, which protects against this.
210
 
      </para>
211
 
    </refsect2>
212
 
    
213
200
    <refsect2 id="physgrab">
214
201
      <title>Physically grabbing the Mandos server computer?</title>
215
202
      <para>
228
215
      </para>
229
216
    </refsect2>
230
217
    
231
 
    <refsect2 id="fakecheck">
232
 
      <title>Faking checker results?</title>
 
218
    <refsect2 id="fakeping">
 
219
      <title>Faking ping replies?</title>
233
220
      <para>
234
 
        If the Mandos client does not have an SSH server, the default
235
 
        is for the Mandos server to use
 
221
        The default for the server is to use
236
222
        <quote><literal>fping</literal></quote>, the replies to which
237
223
        could be faked to eliminate the timeout.  But this could
238
224
        easily be changed to any shell command, with any security
239
 
        measures you like.  If the Mandos client
240
 
        <emphasis>has</emphasis> an SSH server, the default
241
 
        configuration (as generated by
242
 
        <command>mandos-keygen</command> with the
243
 
        <option>--password</option> option) is for the Mandos server
244
 
        to use an <command>ssh-keyscan</command> command with strict
245
 
        keychecking, which can not be faked.  Alternatively, IPsec
246
 
        could be used for the ping packets, making them secure.
 
225
        measures you like.  It could, for instance, be changed to an
 
226
        SSH command with strict keychecking, which could not be faked.
 
227
        Or IPsec could be used for the ping packets, making them
 
228
        secure.
247
229
      </para>
248
230
    </refsect2>
249
231
  </refsect1>