[strongSwan] many cipher/hash modes seems to be unavailable

Christoph Anton Mitterer calestyo at scientia.net
Sun Oct 3 20:23:32 CEST 2010


On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 13:54 +0200, Andreas Steffen wrote:
Actually esp does not need an additional hash algorithm if AEAD
> is used. Thus
> 
>   esp = aes256gcm128-sha512-modp2048!
> 
> is actually wrong. The correct syntax is
> 
>   esp = aes256gcm128-modp2048!
> 
> if you want perfect forward secrecy or just
> 
>   esp = aes256gcm128!
> 
> without PFS during IPsec SA rekeying. With non-AEAD authentication
> a data integrity algorithm *must* be defined, e.g.
> 
>   eps=aes256-sha512!

Ah thanks for that information,.. and I guess with the ike parameter
it's the same.

Could you please update the manpages/wiki pages to reflect this for
other end-users like me?! ;)


Cheers,
Chris.
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