[strongSwan] Configuring asymmetric PSK's?

Noel Kuntze noel at familie-kuntze.de
Tue Jul 7 21:25:45 CEST 2015


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Hello Ryan,
Asymettric PSKs are not supported
and completely useless, as they're shared.
Both sides know them.
Using different keys on either side gains no security whatsoever.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind Regards,
Noel Kuntze

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Am 07.07.2015 um 21:23 schrieb Ruel, Ryan:
> I am trying to configure a connection where I use an FQDN identifier for my local ID, and an e-mail address for the remote identifier.
>
> Both use the same domain name.
>
> I have set a secret for each in ipsec.secrets, which I would like to be asymmetric. 
>
> What I find, however, is that strongSwan is using "abc123" for both keys.  I can verify this with a Cisco CSR by setting the local and remote pre-shared key to abc123, and the connection comes up.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> /Ryan
>
> ipsec.secrets:
> @foo.bar.com : PSK 123abc
> user1 at foo.bar.com : PSK abc123
>
> ipsec.conf:
> conn test
>         auto=add
>         authby=secret
>         leftid="foo.bar.com"
>         right=%any
>         rightid="*foo.bar.com"
>
>
>
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