Document the certificate handling
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* link:install.html[Installation]
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* link:configure.html[Configuration]
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* link:ssl.html[SSL Management]
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* link:usage.html[Usage]
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* link:themes.html[Theming]
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* link:keys.html[Keys]
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SSL Management
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Starting from version 0.7.5, poezio offers some options to check the validity
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of a X.509 certificate.
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TOFU
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----
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The default handling method is the
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link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dotdotike/Trust_Upon_First_Use[TOFU/TUFU]
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method. At your first connection, poezio will save the hash of the certificate
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received, and will compare the received one and the first one for the next
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connections.
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If you are paranoid (or run poezio for the first time in an unsafe
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environment), you can set the _certificate_ value of your config file yourself
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(the hash, not colon-separated).
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If the certificate is not the same, poezio will show an error message and wait
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for confirmation:
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image:../images/ssl_warning.png["Warning message", title="Warning message"]
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If you press y, the change is validated an poezio will match the next certs
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with the accepted one.
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If you press n, you will get the confirmation that the change has been
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refused, and you will be disconnected.
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CA-Based
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If you are connecting to a large server that has several front-facing
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endpoints, you might be bothered by having to validate the change each time,
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and you may want to check only if it the same authority delivered the
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certificate.
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You can then set the _ca_cert_path_ option to the path of a file containing
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the validation chain in link:https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1422.html[PEM
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format] ; those certificates are usually in /usr/share/ca-certificates/ but it
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may vary depending of your distribution.
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If the authority does not match when connecting, you should be disconnected.
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None
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If you do not want to bother with certificate validation at all (which can be
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the case when you run poezio on the same computer as your jabber server), you
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can set the _ignore_certificate_ value to true, and let the _ca_cert_path_
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option empty (or even remove it).
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