Opened 8 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#790 closed Patch submission ( fixed )

man page update to --tls-auth for 2.4

Reported by: krzee king Owned by: Steffan Karger
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: Documentation Version: OpenVPN 2.4_alpha2 (Community Ed)
Severity: Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) Keywords:
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Description (last modified by krzee king )

The last line reads as:

"It should be emphasized that this feature is optional and that the key file used with --tls-auth gives a peer nothing more than the power to initiate a TLS handshake. It is not used to encrypt or authenticate any tunnel data."

I think we could change it to say:

"It should be emphasized that this feature is optional and that the key file used with --tls-auth gives a peer nothing more than the power to initiate a TLS handshake. It is not used to encrypt or authenticate any tunnel data. Use --tls-crypt if you want to use the key file as a static key to encrypt the TLS channel instead"

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by krzee king

Description: modified ( diff )

comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by Steffan Karger

Owner: set to Steffan Karger
Status: new → accepted

Make that "authenticate and encrypt", and I fully agree. Will you send a patch to the list, or shall I cook one up?

comment:4 Changed 8 years ago by Steffan Karger

Resolution: → fixed
Status: accepted → closed

Patch has been applied: 403dfe1bfdbdf6e5f8abac3401a96852562aec54.