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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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Network Protocol Version 1
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The server announces itself as an IPv6 Zeroconf service of type
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"_mandos._tcp".  A connecting client sends a line of text where the
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first whitespace-separated field is the protocol version, which
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currently is "1".  The client and server then start a TLS handshake,
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with the unusual property that the server program acts as a TLS
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"client" and the connecting client acts as a TLS "server".  In this
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TLS handshake the client must supply an OpenPGP certificate, and the
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fingerprint of this certificate is used by the server to look up (in a
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list read from file at start time) which binary blob to give the
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client.  No other authentication or authorization is done by the
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server.  After the binary blob is sent by the server to the client,
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the server closes the connection.