[strongSwan] documenting the X509 configuration for a roadwarrior?

Daniel Pocock daniel at pocock.com.au
Fri Oct 21 09:45:10 CEST 2011


>> ipsec pki --pub --in moonKey.der | ipsec pki --issue --cacert caCert.der
>> --cakey caKey.der --dn "C=GB, O=Example Limited, CN=moon.example.org"
>> --san "DNS:moon.example.org" > moonCert.der
>>     
> DNS:moon.example.org is the OpenSSL way of representing a
> subjectAltName. If you use our PKI tool, just add --san
> moon.example.org, it automatically figures out that this is a DNS type
> subjectAltName.
>
>   
Ok, thanks for confirming this is the right way to do it for strongSwan,
maybe the section on `End entity certificates' in
http://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SimpleCA needs a
complete example of using --san?





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