TLS in poezio ============= .. _security settings: Security of the connection ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Enabling or disabling TLS ------------------------- Starting from version 0.8, poezio is configured to reject unencrypted connections by default, in accordance to the `TLS manifesto`_. Users can still allow unencrypted connections by setting the :term:`force_encryption` option to false. If you cannot connect to your server, maybe it does not allow encrypted connections, in which case you should reconfigure it if it is yours, or contact your admin to let him know he should try to protect your privacy and credentials, at least a little. .. _ciphers: Ciphers ------- From the version 0.8, poezio offers the possibility to define your own set of ciphers. You can set this with the :term:`ciphers` option, the default for poezio being ``HIGH+kEDH:HIGH+kEECDH:HIGH:!PSK:!SRP:!3DES:!aNULL``. You can check what ciphers are enabled by that list by running the command ``openssl ciphers -v 'cipher list'``. The default list prioritizes `Forward Secrecy`_ and does not have any cipher suite providing less than 128 bits of security. You should change this if you either cannot connect to your server (but in this case, you should notify the administrator that his XMPP server configuration is probably not great), or if you want to be even more restrictive (only allowing 256 bits of security *and* forward secrecy, for example). Certificate validation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Starting from version 0.7.5, poezio offers some options to check the validity of a X.509 certificate. TOFU ---- The default handling method is the `TOFU/TUFU`_ method. At your first connection, poezio will save the hash of the certificate received, and will compare the received one and the first one for the next connections. If you are paranoid (or run poezio for the first time in an unsafe environment), you can set the _certificate_ value of your config file yourself (the hash, not colon-separated). If the certificate is not the same, poezio will show an error message and wait for confirmation: .. figure:: ../images/ssl_warning.png :alt: Warning message If you press y, the change is validated an poezio will match the next certs with the accepted one. If you press n, you will get the confirmation that the change has been refused, and you will be disconnected. CA-Based -------- If you are connecting to a large server that has several front-facing endpoints, you might be bothered by having to validate the change each time, and you may want to check only if it the same authority delivered the certificate. You can then set the :term:`ca_cert_path` option to the path of a file containing the validation chain in `PEM format`_ ; those certificates are usually in /usr/share/ca-certificates/ but it may vary depending of your distribution. If the authority does not match when connecting, you should be disconnected. None ---- If you do not want to bother with certificate validation at all (which can be the case when you run poezio on the same computer as your jabber server), you can set the :term:`ignore_certificate` value to true, and let the :term:`ca_cert_path` option empty (or even remove it). .. warning:: Only do this if you know what you are doing, or you will be open to Man in The Middle attacks! .. _Forward Secrecy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy .. _TOFU/TUFU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dotdotike/Trust_Upon_First_Use .. _PEM format: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1422.html .. _TLS manifesto: https://github.com/stpeter/manifesto/blob/master/manifesto.txt