From 411e89ae6fa195885dc13c594235893c22cb33d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: james <james@e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 08:26:57 +0000
Subject: Merged --remote-cert-ku, --remote-cert-eku, and --remote-cert-tls
 from Alon's branch: svn merge -r 793:796 $SO/contrib/alon/BETA21/openvpn .

git-svn-id: http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn@797 e7ae566f-a301-0410-adde-c780ea21d3b5
---
 openvpn.8 | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)

(limited to 'openvpn.8')

diff --git a/openvpn.8 b/openvpn.8
index 0c634a9..7d14524 100644
--- a/openvpn.8
+++ b/openvpn.8
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ openvpn \- secure IP tunnel daemon.
 [\ \fB\-\-remap\-usr1\fR\ \fIsignal\fR\ ]
 [\ \fB\-\-remote\-random\fR\ ]
 [\ \fB\-\-remote\fR\ \fIhost\ [port]\fR\ ]
+[\ \fB\-\-remote\-cert\-ku\ \fIv...\fR\ ]
+[\ \fB\-\-remote\-cert\-eku\ \fIoid\fR\ ]
+[\ \fB\-\-remote\-cert\-tls\ \fIt\fR\ ]
 [\ \fB\-\-reneg\-bytes\fR\ \fIn\fR\ ]
 [\ \fB\-\-reneg\-pkts\fR\ \fIn\fR\ ]
 [\ \fB\-\-reneg\-sec\fR\ \fIn\fR\ ]
@@ -4044,6 +4047,58 @@ or
 .B --tls-verify.
 .\"*********************************************************
 .TP
+.B --remote-cert-ku v...
+Require that peer certificate was signed with an explicit
+.B key usage.
+
+This is useful security option for clients, to ensure that
+the host they connect with is a designated server.
+
+The key usage should be encoded in hex, more than one key
+usage can be specified.
+.\"*********************************************************
+.TP
+.B --remote-cert-eku oid
+Require that peer certificate was signed with an explicit
+.B extended key usage.
+
+This is useful security option for clients, to ensure that
+the host they connect with is a designated server.
+
+The extended key usage should be encoded in oid notation, or
+OpenSSL symbolic representation.
+.\"*********************************************************
+.TP
+.B --remote-cert-tls client|server
+Require that peer certificate was signed with an explicit
+.B key usage
+and
+.B extended key usage
+based on TLS rules.
+
+This is a useful security option for clients, to ensure that
+the host they connect with is a designated server.
+
+The
+.B --remote-cert-tls client
+option is equivalent to
+.B --remote-cert-ku 80 08 88 --remote-cert-eku \fB"TLS Web Client Authentication" 
+
+The
+.B --remote-cert-tls server
+option is equivalent to
+.B --remote-cert-ku a0 08 --remote-cert-eku \fB"TLS Web Server Authentication"
+
+This is an important security precaution to protect against
+a man-in-the-middle attack where an authorized client
+attempts to connect to another client by impersonating the server.
+The attack is easily prevented by having clients verify
+the server certificate using any one of
+.B --remote-cert-tls, --tls-remote,
+or
+.B --tls-verify.
+.\"*********************************************************
+.TP
 .B --crl-verify crl
 Check peer certificate against the file
 .B crl
-- 
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