FreeS/WAN pre-shared keys

Jimen Ching jching at flex.com
Sat May 5 13:33:57 PDT 2001


On Sat, 5 May 2001, Deven Phillips, CISSP wrote:
>	You need to pre-share the public keys. This is done by taking the
>public keys and placing them into your connection settings like so:
>
>	 leftrsasigkey=<Your left side public key>
>	 rightrsasigkey=<Your right side public key>
>
>	This is to ensure that the connection is not being spoofed. If you use
>internet negotiated keys, there is always the chance that someone could
>send you false keys, and then eavesdrop on your session.

I am using PSK for authentication, do I need to do this even if I do not
have a secret for RSA sig?  Do I need to put an RSA key in my ipsec.secret
file?  I also assume the rightrsasigkey is from work?  They did not give
me one.  They told me they are using PSK.

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching at flex.com     wh6brr at uhm.ampr.org



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