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[minion-cvs] Commit configurability work for 0.0.5. (needs testing)



Update of /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/etc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/tmp/cvs-serv19199/etc

Modified Files:
	mixminiond.conf 
Log Message:
Commit configurability work for 0.0.5.  (needs testing)

- Add ability to disable directory paranoia (disabled by default on
  cygwin, win32).
- Make directory paranoia messages more helpful.
- Change min,default,max public key overlap from (0,2,6) hours to (6,24,72) 
  hours.



Index: mixminiond.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/minion/cvsroot/src/minion/etc/mixminiond.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -d -r1.30 -r1.31
--- mixminiond.conf	21 Jun 2003 07:24:07 -0000	1.30
+++ mixminiond.conf	26 Jun 2003 17:43:27 -0000	1.31
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@
 #
 #EntropySource: /dev/urandom
 
+#   Ordinarily, Mixminion tries very hard to make sure all your file
+#   permissions are reasonable.  Sometimes it is too paranoid for its
+#   own good.  When this happens, you can either mark certain users
+#   ('system', 'dev', and so on) as trusted, or disable file paranoia entirely.
+#
+#FileParanoia: yes
+#TrustedUser: root
+
 [Server]
 
 #    Location of all mixminion keys and file queues.  You don't need to
@@ -92,7 +100,12 @@
 PublicKeyLifetime: 3 weeks
 
 #   How long after a key rotation should the old key still work?
-#PublicKeyOverlap: 2 hours
+#
+#   (This should be fairly long, since messages can be delayed in the
+#   network when servers go down.  If it's *too* long, however, you
+#   enable delaying attacks.)
+#
+#PublicKeyOverlap: 24 hours
 
 #   Use this option to define a 'nickname' for this server that users will
 #   use as a 'friendlier' version of your identity key.