/* * wincapi.h: Windows Crypto API functions defined in wincapi.c that * use the crypt32 library. Also centralises the machinery for * dynamically loading that library, and our own functions using that * in turn. */ #if !defined NO_SECURITY DECL_WINDOWS_FUNCTION(extern, BOOL, CryptProtectMemory, (LPVOID,DWORD,DWORD)); bool got_crypt(void); /* * Function to obfuscate an input string into something usable as a * pathname for a Windows named pipe. Uses CryptProtectMemory to make * the obfuscation depend on a key Windows stores for the owning user, * and then hashes the string as well to make it have a manageable * length and be composed of filename-legal characters. * * Rationale: Windows's named pipes all live in the same namespace, so * one user can see what pipes another user has open. This is an * undesirable privacy leak: in particular, if we used unobfuscated * names for the connection-sharing pipe names, it would permit one * user to know what username@host another user is SSHing to. * * The returned string is dynamically allocated. */ char *capi_obfuscate_string(const char *realname); #endif