[strongSwan] FQDN based certificate authentication for ikev2

Andreas Steffen andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
Mon Apr 2 12:18:43 CEST 2012


Hi Reshma,

by default the certificate's subjectDistinguishedName is used as
an ID. There is no mechanism to automatically assign subjectAltNames.

What should we do if several subjectAltNames exist?

Regards

Andreas

On 02.04.2012 11:14, Reshma Begam wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
>  Thanks for the response and this works. 
> 
> Also, how can we assign identity info from cert files to  leftid/rightid
> ?  instead of explicitly defining them.
> 
> Example:  I am looking something like leftid=%fromcert
> 
> leftid=%fromcert and leftid=%leftcert -->  I tried both these options on
> responder side instead of   leftid=cla.atca.nsn.com
> <http://cla.atca.nsn.com/>, but it doesn't work.
> 
> Could you please comment what should be the wild card entries on both
> sides to acheive this assignments using certs?
> 
> Thanks,
> Reshma
> 

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