Greg Stark wrote:
Andreas Steffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:


X.509 certificates are not supported by showhostkey. If you
want to use Opportunistic Encryption you can extract the required
public key from a certificate using the fswcert tool downloadable
from

http://www.strongsec.com/freeswan/old.htm


Uhm. Ok. I've done so. But I'm not clear how to use fswcert.

I ran fswcert --k /etc/ipsec.d/private/stark.xeocode.comKey.pem

And substituted that output for the ": RSA..." that was present in
ipsec.secrets.

ipsec.secrets now contains something like:

: RSA {
        Modulus: 0x...
        PublicExponent: 0x...
        PrivateExponent: 0x...
        Prime1: 0x...
        Prime2: 0x...
        Exponent1: 0x...
        Exponent2: 0x...
        Coefficient: 0x...
  }

now ipsec showhostkey --txt @stark.xeocode.com says:

ipsec showhostkey: no pubkey line found -- key information old?

Which leaves me a bit stumped. What is a pubkey line? How is it different from
what fswcert outputted?


If I remember correctly the public key line is inserted as a comment into ipsec.secrets and consists of the output of

fswcert -c /etc/ipsec.d/certs/myCert.pem

fswcert produces hex format starting with 0x.. whereas DNS entries
now use base64 format starting with 0s...

Regards

Andreas

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