[strongSwan] preloading client certificates

[Andreas Steffen]

Hi Pete,

On 10/02/2014 12:47 PM, cellkites at hushmail.com wrote:
> 
> Awesome thanks for that. I believe I was having an issue with some
> intermediary firewalls / nat devices dropping my oversized packets due
> to the size of the rsa certs. Hopefully preloading them will fix that.
>
The upcoming strongSwan 5.2.1 release will include support for the new
IKEv2 fragmentation standard, so any oversized IKE_AUTH packet issues
are going to be solved.

> Out of interest how does the strongswan daemon know which cert
> corresponds to which client? Is the client just sending the subject of
> it's certificate and then the daemon uses that to choose a corresponding
> client cert?
> 
Lookup is based on the IKEv2 identity payload sent by the peer.

Best regards

Andreas

> 
> On 2/10/2014 at 3:37 PM, "Martin Willi" <martin at strongswan.org> wrote:
> 
>     Pete,
> 
>     > I've copied them to the /etc/ipsec.d/certs directory and restarted the
>     > daemon but "ipsec listcerts" still only lists the certificates that I
>     > have a private key for.
> 
>     Certificates from the cert directory do not get loaded automatically.
>     The directory merely holds the certificates you can directly reference
>     with left/rightcert. This is a little different from the swanctl x509
>     directory [1], for which all contained certificates get loaded
>     implicitly.
> 
>     If you have a large bunch of client certificates to handle, you probably
>     don't want a conn entry in ipsec.conf for each. Usually you issue all
>     the certificates from a CA to avoid handling all the client certificates
>     separately, and just install the CA to cacerts.
> 
>     Regards
>     Martin
> 
>     [1]https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SwanctlDirectory
>
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