Re: Singe DES encryption should be enabled

[Jon Nettleton <jon nettleton gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 12:18 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 10:53 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:34 +0100, Olaf Telsh�r wrote:
> > > We should enable single DES encryption mode. In this
> > > case, vpnc must be called using the --enable-1des
> > > flag.
> > 
> > Are there really cases where 1des is still being used?  I'd rather that
> > it be something you have to manually enable rather than accepting 1des
> > by default.
> > 
> 
> I think we really want to expose as many of the command line options in
> the gui that we sanely can.  Make sure all our defaults are reasonable,
> but allow people to tweak if necessary.
> 
> I think following the logic of your previous comments and changing the
> vpn interface such that required goes back to being a normal panel.  We
> add a small advanced options button on the bottom left of the dialog.
> This will open a modal window organized by tabs for all the different
> options that are supported.
> 
> I will try and mock up some screenshots when I have some free time.
> 

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So I fired up glade and threw together some code to take the vpn dialogs
through another iteration.  I have some screenshots that can definitely
use some critiquing.  

http://www.hekanetworks.com/~jnettlet/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-newest-main.jpg

http://www.hekanetworks.com/~jnettlet/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-newest-advanced-network.jpg

http://www.hekanetworks.com/~jnettlet/NetworkManager/nm-openvpn-newest-advanced-encryption.jpg


I already have the working code for these changes.  Once opinions are
weighed I can spit out a patch.

Jon