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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-03-10 18:03:38 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150310180338-pcxw6r2qmw9k6br9
Add ":!RSA" to GnuTLS priority string, to disallow non-DHE kx.

If Mandos was somehow made to use a non-ephemeral Diffie-Hellman key
exchange algorithm in the TLS handshake, any saved network traffic
could then be decrypted later if the Mandos client key was obtained.
By default, Mandos uses ephemeral DH key exchanges which does not have
this problem, but a non-ephemeral key exchange algorithm was still
enabled by default.  The simplest solution is to simply turn that off,
which ensures that Mandos will always use ephemeral DH key exchanges.

There is a "PFS" priority string specifier, but we can't use it because:

1. Security-wise, it is a mix between "NORMAL" and "SECURE128" - it
   enables a lot more algorithms than "SECURE256".

2. It is only available since GnuTLS 3.2.4.

Thanks to Andreas Fischer <af@bantuX.org> for reporting this issue.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-keygen">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-12">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
 
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%common;
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
 
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    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
 
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      <year>2009</year>
 
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      <year>2011</year>
 
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--force</option></arg>
 
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      <group>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--force</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-f</option></arg>
 
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      </group>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <group choice="req">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--password</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-p</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--passfile
 
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-F</option>
 
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-n
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--no-ssh</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-S</option></arg>
 
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program can also be used with the
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      <option>--password</option> option to generate a ready-made
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      section for <filename>clients.conf</filename> (see
 
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      <option>--password</option> or <option>--passfile</option>
 
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      options to generate a ready-made section for
 
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      <filename>clients.conf</filename> (see
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>).
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    </para>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Target directory for key files.  Default is
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            <filename>/etc/mandos</filename>.
 
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            <filename class="directory">/etc/mandos</filename>.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <replaceable>TYPE</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Key type.  Default is <quote>DSA</quote>.
 
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            Key type.  Default is <quote>RSA</quote>.
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Key length in bits.  Default is 2048.
 
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></term>
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            Subkey type.  Default is <quote>ELG-E</quote> (Elgamal
 
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        <replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></term>
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            Subkey length in bits.  Default is 2048.
 
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        <replaceable>TEXT</replaceable></option></term>
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            Comment field for key.  The default value is
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            <quote><literal>Mandos client key</literal></quote>.
 
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            Comment field for key.  Default is empty.
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></term>
 
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            <command>ssh-keyscan</command> to get an SSH fingerprint
 
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            for this host and, if successful, output suitable config
 
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