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man: add security considerations to --compress section
authorSteffan Karger <steffan@karger.me>
Sun, 3 Jun 2018 10:11:56 +0000 (12:11 +0200)
committerGert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Sun, 3 Jun 2018 18:58:07 +0000 (20:58 +0200)
commita59fd1475089eda4c89942d345070bb942180223
treed4dde4afe4731a59bfe46fada1dc096c09784e83
parent1394192b210cb3c6624a7419bcf3ff966742e79b
man: add security considerations to --compress section

As Ahamed Nafeez reported to the OpenVPN security team, we did not
sufficiently inform our users about the risks of combining encryption
and compression.  This patch adds a "Security Considerations" paragraph
to the --compress section of the manpage to point the risks out to our
users.

Signed-off-by: Steffan Karger <steffan@karger.me>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Message-Id: <1528020718-12721-1-git-send-email-steffan@karger.me>
URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg16919.html
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
doc/openvpn.8