X-Git-Url: http://www.git.cypherpunks.ru/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fnoise.texi;h=1aee9250f8bebb570418e062574d5d27adbe813b;hb=2f3299c343b4036718f254d9c23f147ba1bc0161;hp=9cd03d2bffac012c24ba5fb4ed4e4bb1365c8118;hpb=f5a14bf320d8c8bd011a7aff067ffa6f1cea45c7;p=govpn.git diff --git a/doc/noise.texi b/doc/noise.texi index 9cd03d2..1aee925 100644 --- a/doc/noise.texi +++ b/doc/noise.texi @@ -1,11 +1,11 @@ @node Noise @subsection Noise -So-called noise is used to hide underlying payload packets lengths. +So-called noise is used to hide underlying payload packets length. Without it GoVPN provides confidentiality and authenticity of messages, but not their timestamps of appearance and sizes. -You may turn on @code{-noise} option, that forces to fill up all +You may turn on @option{-noise} option, that forces to fill up all outgoing packets to their maximum (MTU) size. As it can be applied only to outgoing traffic, you should enable it on both sides in most cases.