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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-07-25 22:44:20 UTC
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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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  program in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment which
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  will communicate with a server over a network.  All network
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  communication is encrypted using <acronym>TLS</acronym>.  The
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  clients are identified by the server using a TLS key; each client
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  has one unique to it.  The server sends the clients an encrypted
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  password.  The encrypted password is decrypted by the clients using
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  a separate OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the
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  root file system, whereupon the computers can continue booting
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  normally.
 
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  clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key; each
 
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  client has one unique to it.  The server sends the clients an
 
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  encrypted password.  The encrypted password is decrypted by the
 
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  clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to
 
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  unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can continue
 
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  booting normally.
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