Hi, has anyone ever used "--cipher" without an argument? If yes, what is the intended usage? It sort of "tells openvpn we want crypto!" but does not go into detail about it...
Normally, this would just be a random weird option, but I ran across --cipher none --cipher which first tells openvpn "nah, we do not want anything!" and sets a pointer to NULL, and then tells openvpn "but please *do* use the ciphers already setup!", which core dumps. This is not remotely exploitable, so not a *security* issue, but a bit stupid nonetheless - so I propose we just throw out "--cipher" with no arguments (--cipher none, or --cipher bf-cbc would, of course, continue to work). Anyone having a good argument against it? JJK, do you happen to know what this is about? gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany g...@greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 g...@net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
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