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'reneg-sec 0' is not a good idea, and is not necessary in OpenVPN >= 2.4 #39

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wrossmann opened this issue Mar 19, 2021 · 1 comment

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@wrossmann
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Setting your tunnel to never renegotiate is a security problem for long-running tunnels, and OpenVPN added the auth-gen-token config parameter specifically for cases like OTP authentication. In short, after authentication OpenVPN will generate a token to be used for renegotiation in place of re-sending the username and password.

Please add a mention of auth-gen-token for OpenVPN >= 2.4 in the README.

@wrossmann wrossmann changed the title 'reneg-sec 0` is not a good idea, and is not necessary in OpenVPN >= 2.4 'reneg-sec 0' is not a good idea, and is not necessary in OpenVPN >= 2.4 Mar 19, 2021
@evgeny-gridasov
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Thanks Wade,
Would you like to raise a PR to add that?
I don’t want to take credit for other people’s contributions.
Alternatively, I could make that change myself.

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