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| author | Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> | 2014-12-14 23:40:31 +0100 |
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| committer | Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org> | 2014-12-14 23:40:31 +0100 |
| commit | 370f94cd97e6869be267a69d1ab4943a3418f27c (patch) | |
| tree | 3f6f797a84e7acba708c5f075448558c9a2a552f /main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 | |
| parent | a56f8a82e5911fd7d67f7e51b680b2dc9d9d8901 (diff) | |
Update OpenVPN to current -master
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extra : rebase_source : 85910d09bae449f484bc15d94583e0ac12772282
Diffstat (limited to 'main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 | 21 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 b/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 index 96ba5554..532eda5c 100644 --- a/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 +++ b/main/openvpn/doc/openvpn.8 @@ -4609,26 +4609,11 @@ bearing an incorrect HMAC signature can be dropped immediately without response. .B file -(required) is a key file which can be in one of two formats: - -.B (1) -An OpenVPN static key file generated by +(required) is a file in OpenVPN static key format which can be generated by .B \-\-genkey -(required if -.B direction -parameter is used). - -.B (2) -A freeform passphrase file. In this case the HMAC key will -be derived by taking a secure hash of this file, similar to -the -.BR md5sum (1) -or -.BR sha1sum (1) -commands. -OpenVPN will first try format (1), and if the file fails to parse as -a static key file, format (2) will be used. +Older versions (up to 2.3) supported a freeform passphrase file. +This is no longer supported in newer versions (2.4+). See the .B \-\-secret |