Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-05-05 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:39:42AM -0400, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: > > >I don't think "openssl genrsa 2048" has this issue on today's > >machines. (I know I saw it with GNUTLS.) > > I was sceptical, so I tried this on a freshly booted VM: > > root@bofh:~#

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/24/2014 08:39 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I don't think "openssl genrsa 2048" has this issue on today's machines. (I know I saw it with GNUTLS.) I was sceptical, so I tried this on a freshly booted VM: root@bofh:~# virsh start north Domain north

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:10:15AM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 15:47 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > I'm working on advice on automated X.509 certificate generation during > > package installation. > > > > One aspect is that these files obviously have to be generated on th

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/24/2014 05:39 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I don't think "openssl genrsa 2048" has this issue on today's machines. (I know I saw it with GNUTLS.) I was sceptical, so I tried this on a freshly booted VM: root@bofh:~# virsh start north Domain north

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I don't think "openssl genrsa 2048" has this issue on today's machines. (I know I saw it with GNUTLS.) I was sceptical, so I tried this on a freshly booted VM: root@bofh:~# virsh start north Domain north started root@bofh:~# ssh root@north Last logi

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Florian Weimer
On 04/24/2014 04:20 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm working on advice on automated X.509 certificate generation during package installation. I would strongly recommend doing it on first service start. I've lived through the FreeS/WAN times and my experie

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Paul Wouters writes: > [...] > How many packages would actually perform any kind of "opportunistic > encryption"? I know the mail servers prefer a selfsigned cert over no > cert whatsoever, but what other applications have this issue of "better > unknown certificate than plaintext" ? Probably al

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Adam Jackson
On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 15:47 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > I'm working on advice on automated X.509 certificate generation during > package installation. > > One aspect is that these files obviously have to be generated on the > system during installation (or first service start) and cannot be

Re: Automatically generated configuration files

2014-04-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Florian Weimer wrote: I'm working on advice on automated X.509 certificate generation during package installation. I would strongly recommend doing it on first service start. I've lived through the FreeS/WAN times and my experience with it for 15+ years caused us (in libre