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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-07-25 22:44:20 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 724.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140725224420-4a5ct2ptt0hsc92z
Require Python 2.7.

This is in preparation for the eventual move to Python 3, which will
happen as soon as all Python modules required by Mandos are available.
The mandos-ctl and mandos-monitor programs are already portable
between Python 2.6 and Python 3 without changes; this change will
bring the requirement up to Python 2.7.

* INSTALL (Prerequisites/Libraries/Mandos Server): Document
                                                   requirement of
                                                   Python 2.7; remove
                                                   Python-argparse
                                                   which is in the
                                                   Python 2.7 standard
                                                   library.
* debian/control (Source: mandos/Build-Depends-Indep): Depend on
                                                       exactly the
                                                       python2.7
                                                       package and all
                                                       the Python 2.7
                                                       versions of the
                                                       python modules.
  (Package: mandos/Depends): - '' - but still depend on python (<=2.7)
                            and the generic versions of the Python
                            modules; this is for mandos-ctl and
                            mandos-monitor, both of which are
                            compatible with Python 3, and use
                            #!/usr/bin/python.
* mandos: Use #!/usr/bin/python2.7 instead of #!/usr/bin/python.

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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         |