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authorFrank Lichtenheld2023-02-01 14:52:21 +0100
committerGert Doering2023-02-01 17:35:02 +0100
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Changes.rst: document removal of --keysize
When reviweing OpenVPN/openvpn#231 I noticed this was missing from Changes.rst. Signed-off-by: Frank Lichtenheld <frank@lichtenheld.com> Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> Message-Id: <20230201135221.36135-1-frank@lichtenheld.com> URL: https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg26121.html Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> (cherry picked from commit b2e49465e6b837d97ecb3a4edbc06aba00584381)
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@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ TLS 1.0 and 1.1 are deprecated
a PRNG is better left to a crypto library. So we use the PRNG
mbed TLS or OpenSSL now.
+``--keysize`` has been removed
+ The ``--keysize`` option was only useful to change the key length when using the
+ BF, CAST6 or RC2 ciphers. For all other ciphers the key size is fixed with the
+ chosen cipher. As OpenVPN v2.6 no longer supports any of these variable length
+ ciphers, this option was removed as well to avoid confusion.
Compression no longer enabled by default
Unless an explicit compression option is specified in the configuration,