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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-16 23:01:02 UTC
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mandos-client: Don't use memset().

* plugins.d/mandos-client.c (start_mandos_communication): Use compound
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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-09">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-07-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2010</year>
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <year>2013</year>
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      <year>2014</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</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>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--tls-privkey
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-t
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--tls-pubkey
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-T
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
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        <option>--priority <replaceable>STRING</replaceable></option>
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      </arg>
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      brings up network interfaces, uses the interfaces’ IPv6
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      link-local addresses to get network connectivity, uses Zeroconf
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      to find servers on the local network, and communicates with
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      servers using TLS with a raw public key to ensure authenticity
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      and confidentiality.  This client program keeps running, trying
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      all servers on the network, until it receives a satisfactory
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      reply or a TERM signal.  After all servers have been tried, all
 
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      servers using TLS with an OpenPGP key to ensure authenticity and
 
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      confidentiality.  This client program keeps running, trying all
 
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      servers on the network, until it receives a satisfactory reply
 
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      or a TERM signal.  After all servers have been tried, all
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      servers are periodically retried.  If no servers are found it
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      will wait indefinitely for new servers to appear.
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        <term><option>--tls-pubkey=<replaceable
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        >FILE</replaceable></option></term>
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        <term><option>-T
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></term>
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            TLS raw public key file name.  The default name is
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            <quote><filename>/conf/conf.d/mandos/tls-pubkey.pem</filename
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        >FILE</replaceable></option></term>
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></term>
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        <term><option>--priority=<replaceable
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        >STRING</replaceable></option></term>
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            Sets the number of bits to use for the prime number in the
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
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        <term><filename>/conf/conf.d/mandos/tls-pubkey.pem</filename
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        Run in debug mode, and use custom keys:
 
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<userinput>&COMMANDNAME; --debug --pubkey keydir/pubkey.txt --seckey keydir/seckey.txt --tls-pubkey keydir/tls-pubkey.pem --tls-privkey keydir/tls-privkey.pem</userinput>
 
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