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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-08 21:18:49 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150708211849-scisutuofnxumqc7
mandos-client: Add --dh-params FILE option.

* plugins.d/mandos-client.c: Added --dh-params FILE option.
  (init_gnutls_global): New "dhparamsfilename" argument.  All callers
                        changed.  Read and use Diffie-Hellman
                        parameters from it.  Bug fix:  check for error
                        when opening seckeyfile for the second time.
  (init_gnutls_session): Remove unnecessary call to
                         gnutls_dh_set_prime_bits();
  (main): New variable "dh_params_file".
  (main/argp_options): Added "--dh-params" option.
  (main/parse_opt): - '' -
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (SYNOPSIS): Add --dh-params option.
  (OPTIONS): Document --dh-params option and document that the
             --dh-bits options is potentially overridden by the
             --dh-params option.

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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 TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-03-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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    <refsect2 id="sniff">
 
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      <title>How about sniffing the network traffic and decrypting it
 
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      later by physically grabbing the Mandos client and using its
 
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      key?</title>
 
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      <para>
 
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        We only use <acronym>PFS</acronym> (Perfect Forward Security)
 
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        key exchange algorithms in TLS, which protects against this.
 
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    <refsect2 id="physgrab">
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      <title>Physically grabbing the Mandos server computer?</title>
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      <para>