[strongSwan] Error Creating ECDSA with PKI

Andreas Steffen andreas.steffen at strongswan.org
Tue Jun 19 06:09:42 CEST 2012


Hi Matt,

did you enable the openssl plugin (./configure --enable-openssl)?

If yes, your OpenSSL library might have ECC disabled.

Regards

Andreas

On 06/19/2012 01:05 AM, Matt Link wrote:
> Hi All,
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> When I run the command:
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> pki --gen --type ecdsa --size 256 > myKey.der
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> I get the following error:
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> building CRED_PRIVATE_KEY - ECDSA failed, tried 1 builders
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> I’m running strongSwan 4.5.3.  I don’t find anything else in the logs. 
> I’ve probably missed something obvious but any help would be appreciated.
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> Thanks,
> 
>       Matt

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