Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
#463 closed Feature Wish (fixed)
Small note about --cipher and --tls-cipher
Reported by: | krzee king | Owned by: | Gert Döring |
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Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | release 2.3.7 |
Component: | Documentation | Version: | OpenVPN 2.3.5 (Community Ed) |
Severity: | Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) | Keywords: | |
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Description
After seeing a question in #openvpn I think the manual could use a small note in --cipher that it is for the data channel, and a note in --tls-ciphers that it is for the control channel.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 9 years ago by
Owner: | set to krzee king |
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Status: | new → assigned |
Version: | 2.2.2 → 2.3.5 |
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by
in --cipher the first sentence is: "Encrypt packets with cipher algorithm alg."
could change that to "Encrypt data channel packets with cipher algorithm alg."
in --tls-ciphers i think it should simply have an additional sentence at the end: "This is for the control channel."
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by
Syzzer already improved --tls-cipher in commit 5f66f907, so that one now reads:
This setting can be used to ensure that certain cipher suites
are used (or not used) for the TLS connection. OpenVPN uses TLS
to secure the control channel, over which the keys that are used
to protect the actual VPN traffic are exchanged.
I'll send a patch for --cipher.
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by
Milestone: | → release 2.3.7 |
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Owner: | changed from krzee king to Gert Döring |
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by
Resolution: | → fixed |
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Status: | assigned → closed |
commit 0fe2498ef9326e301869c9e8a9e622a3996ae579 (master)
commit 7327e46c922e3cfe6b797b1f20ea9cffd6e6b522 (release/2.3)
Author: Gert Doering
Date: Tue May 26 23:01:03 2015 +0200
slightly enhance documentation about --cipher
I agree. Please send patch (or "new text" which I can turn into a patch)