[strongSwan] loading private key file is failing with charon, when trying to establish IPsec tunnel with certifiactes.

bhargav p bhargav.1226 at gmail.com
Fri May 31 08:12:35 CEST 2013


Hi,

I am trying to establish the IPsec tunnel with certificates with charon.

>From the logs the below error is thrown:

L0 - RSAPrivateKey:
 charon: 00[LIB] L1 - version:
 charon: 00[LIB] => 1 bytes @ 0x1200ac406
 charon: 00[LIB]    0: 00                                               .
 charon: 00[LIB] L1 - modulus: ASN1 tag 0x02 expected, but is 0x30
 charon: 00[LIB] => 15 bytes @ 0x1200ac407
 charon: 00[LIB]    0: 30 0D 06 09 2A 86 48 86 F7 0D 01 01 01 05 00
0...*.H........
charon: 00[LIB] building CRED_PRIVATE_KEY - RSA failed, tried 5 builders
 charon: 00[CFG]   loading private key from
'/etc/ipsec/certs/ipsec.d//private/defaultPrivateKey.pem' failed
 charon: 00[LIB] plugin 'stroke': loaded successfully
 charon: 00[LIB] plugin 'kernel-netlink': loaded successfully
 charon: 00[DMN] loaded plugins: openssl random pem x509 pubkey pkcs1 hmac
xcbc stroke kernel-netlink
May 31 13:32:21.117438 info CLA-0 charon: 00[JOB] spawning 16 worker threads
charon: 07[LIB]   file content is not binary ASN.1

Can some one help me here.

Using strongswan version:4.5.3

cat defaultPrivateKey.pem
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----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-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

--Bhargav
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