From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:16:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc update X-Git-Tag: gnutls_3_2_3pre0~22 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ed4a4be17d0bb4b25ed4507a178de76bce23a0ec;p=thirdparty%2Fgnutls.git doc update --- diff --git a/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi b/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi index 91b142f163..75d24582c8 100644 --- a/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi +++ b/doc/cha-gtls-app.texi @@ -720,9 +720,9 @@ case, in order to be able to use the DTLS handshake timers, the function @node DTLS sessions @subsection DTLS sessions -Because datagram TLS can operate over connections where the peer -of a server cannot be reliably verified, functionality is available to prevent -denial of service attacks. @acronym{GnuTLS} requires a server +Because datagram TLS can operate over connections where the client +cannot be reliably verified, functionality in the form of cookies, is available to prevent +denial of service attacks to servers. @acronym{GnuTLS} requires a server to generate a secret key that is used to sign a cookie@footnote{A key of 128 bits or 16 bytes should be sufficient for this purpose.}. That cookie is sent to the client using @funcref{gnutls_dtls_cookie_send}, and the client must reply using the correct cookie. The server side