<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Thank you martin for the hint.<br><br>I added 'pem' in strongswan.conf (you can see strongswan.conf below):  But I still get the same output. Please see the <br>>>ipsec start --no-fork output right after strongswan.conf<br>This package is also installed : strongswan-mod-pem - 5.0.4-1<br><br>Is there anyother way to debug this to see why is not loading the keys?  <br><br><br><br>Appreciate your help.<br><br>Farid<br><br><br><br>08[LIB] building CRED_CERTIFICATE - ANY failed, tried 1 builders<br># strongswan.conf - strongSwan configuration
 file                                                                           
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>charon
 {                                                                                                                    
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>        # number of worker threads in
 charon                                                                                 <br>        threads =
 16                                                                                                         <br>        load = aes pem des sha1 sha2 md5 gmp random nonce hmac stroke kernel-netlink socket-default updown                   <br>        # send strongswan vendor
 ID?                                                                                         <br>        # send_vendor_id =
 yes                                                                                              
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>        plugins
 {                                                                                                           
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>                sql
 {                                                                                                        <br>                        # loglevel to log into sql
 database                                                                  <br>                        loglevel =
 -1                                                                                       
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>                        # URI to the
 database                                                                                <br>                        # database =
 sqlite:///path/to/file.db                                                               <br>                        # database = mysql://user:password@localhost/database                                               
 <br>                }                                                                                                            <br>       
 }                                                                                                                   
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>        #
 ...                                                                                                               
 <br>}                                                                                                                           
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>pluto
 {                                                                                                                     
 <br>                                                                                                                            
 <br>}                                                                                                                           
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>libstrongswan
 {                                                                                                             
 <br>                                                                                                                             <br>        #  set to no, the DH exponent size is
 optimized                                                                      <br>        #  dh_exponent_ansi_x9_42 =
 no                                                                                      
 <br>}                                                                                                                           
 <br>~                                                                      <br><br>root@LMU8K:~# ipsec start --nofork<br>Starting strongSwan 5.0.4 IPsec [starter]...<br>!! Your strongswan.conf contains manual plugin load options for charon.<br>!! This is recommended for experts only, see<br>!! http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginLoad<br>00[DMN] Starting IKE charon daemon (strongSwan 5.0.4, Linux 3.3.8, armv5tejl)<br>00[CFG] loading ca certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts'<br>00[LIB] building CRED_CERTIFICATE - X509 failed, tried 0 builders<br>00[CFG]   loading ca certificate from
 '/etc/ipsec.d/cacerts/caCert.pem' failed<br>00[CFG] loading aa certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/aacerts'<br>00[CFG] loading ocsp signer certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/ocspcerts'<br>00[CFG] loading attribute certificates from '/etc/ipsec.d/acerts'<br>00[CFG] loading crls from '/etc/ipsec.d/crls'<br>00[CFG] loading secrets from '/etc/ipsec.secrets'<br>00[LIB] building CRED_PRIVATE_KEY - RSA failed, tried 3 builders<br>00[CFG]   loading private key from '/etc/ipsec.d/private/lmu56Key.pem' failed<br>00[DMN] loaded plugins: charon aes pem des sha1 sha2 md5 gmp random nonce hmac stroke kernel-netlink socket-default updown<br>00[JOB] spawning 16 worker threads<br>charon (2628) started after 80 ms<br>08[CFG] received stroke: add connection 'lmu56'<br>08[LIB] building CRED_CERTIFICATE - ANY failed, tried 1 builders<br>08[CFG]   loading certificate from 'lmu56Cert.pem' failed<br>08[CFG] added configuration
 'lmu56'<br><br><br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div>  <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1">  <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Martin Willi <martin@strongswan.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Farid Farid <farid21657@yahoo.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "users@lists.strongswan.org" <users@lists.strongswan.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sunday, July 28, 2013 12:19 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [strongSwan] No private key found for  'C=CA ...........'<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>Hi Farid,<br><br>> !! Your strongswan.conf contains manual plugin load options for
 charon.<br>> !! This is recommended for experts only, see<br>> !! <a href="http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginLoad" target="_blank">http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/PluginLoad</a><br><br>This warning pops up for specific reason:<br><br>> 00[DMN] loaded plugins: charon aes des sha1 sha2 md5 gmp random nonce hmac stroke kernel-netlink socket-default updown<br><br>You didn't load the pem plugin, hence<br><br>> 00[LIB] building CRED_PRIVATE_KEY - RSA failed, tried 2 builders<br>> 00[CFG]   loading private key from '/etc/ipsec.d/private/lmu55Key.pem' failed<br><br>loading a PEM encoded private key fails.<br><br>Regards<br>Martin<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div>  </div></body></html>