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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-12 20:00:36 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080812200036-z10kv68i2c1kcagg
* Makefile (install-client): Bug fix: Do not fail if plugin dir
                             already exist.  Bug fix: Do not fail if
                             old keys exist.
  (uninstall-server, uninstall-client, purge-server): Bug fix: Removed
                                                      invalid
                                                      "--force" option
                                                      for rmdir.
  (purge-server): Remove "mandos.conf", not "server.conf".

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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         |