[strongSwan-dev] Pluto Fails to Parse Cert

[William Bloom]

Thanks, Stefan.  I have the following in strongswan.conf in order to
include the gmp plugin...

  pluto {
     load = aes des shaq sha2 md5 hmac pem x509 gmp random pubkey
  }

...and 'ipsec statusall' also reports that gmp is loaded. I actually had this
in place before I discovered the public key parsing issue.  What else might I
have wrong?


Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Steffen [mailto:andreas.steffen at strongswan.org]
Sent: Fri 7/2/2010 11:52 PM
To: William Bloom
Cc: dev at lists.strongswan.org
Subject: Re: [strongSwan-dev] Pluto Fails to Parse Cert
 
Hello Bill,

pluto chokes when trying to parse the public key contained in the
certificate. I think than no big-number library is available.
Either the gmp or openssl plugin must be loaded. The command

  ipsec statusall

should show one of them. By default the gmp is built which in
turn requires the GNU Multiprecision library.

Regards

Andreas

On 07/03/2010 04:56 AM, William Bloom wrote:
> 
> I have a 4.4.0 installation of strongSwan on one RHEL51 box, on which I've configured a CA using 'ipsec pki ...' as described on the strongswan online docs, as well as on a RHEL46 box which attempts to establish a VPN to a Cisco ASA.  I generated RSA 2048 keys for the CA and the client, self-signed a new CA cert which I then used to issue a cert for the client.  All straightforward.  I installed the CA cert and client cert/key on the client, leaving everything in DER format.  Pluto opens these files and progresses nominally, at first, with the parse and then appears to choke at the point of 'subjectPublicKeyInfo'.  With 'plutodebug=all', the following appears in /var/log/secure...
> 
>     L2 - subjectPublicKeyInfo:
>     -- > --
>     -- < --
> 
>   002   error in X.509 certificate
> 
> Yet 'openssl x509 -in cacert.der -inform DER -text -noout' parses the cert successfully and reports the subject public key properly.  Might there be a DER problem, should I try PEM (it seems unlikely, I know)?
> 
> 
> Bill

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