[strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

[Nathan Hüsken]

Hey,

Ok, thanks for the tips. I am trying it with charon-cmd now, not network-manager. I followed the instructions from [1].

In the logs I can see,  that the private key seems to be loaded correctly:

    Jul 19 19:01:53 SuperSam charon: 14[CFG] loading secrets from '/etc/ipsec.secrets'
    Jul 19 19:01:53 SuperSam charon: 14[CFG] found key on PKCS#11 token 'opensc':0
    Jul 19 19:01:53 SuperSam charon: 14[CFG]   loaded private key from %smartcard:3


I managed to configure strongswan (on the client side) so that  the certificate is listed:

    > ipsec listcerts
    List of X.509 End Entity Certificates
    
      subject:  "C=DE, O=example Company, CN=nathan at wintercloud.de"
      issuer:   "C=DE, O=example Company, CN=strongSwan Root CA"
      validity:  not before Jul 19 17:02:36 2018, ok
                 not after  Jul 18 17:02:36 2020, ok (expires in 729 days)
      serial:    4c:0f:51:f9:0c:bc:06:c9
      altNames:  nathan at wintercloud.de
      flags:     clientAuth 
      authkeyId: 1b:52:a8:d6:bb:20:98:11:ca:28:52:71:07:89:46:84:bf:52:2d:36
      subjkeyId: d0:65:3c:1c:f4:4f:f6:77:7e:09:fb:d3:81:55:d3:d9:d9:99:69:c8
      pubkey:    RSA 4096 bits, has private key
      keyid:     8f:38:18:ef:2e:52:63:c3:dd:7d:62:66:9d:31:91:ac:6c:f8:2e:c6
      subjkey:   d0:65:3c:1c:f4:4f:f6:77:7e:09:fb:d3:81:55:d3:d9:d9:99:69:c8

But it seems I am not able to use it with charon-cmd:

     > charon-cmd --host <my-host> --identity nathan\@wintercloud.de --cert <path-to-server-cert> --profile ikev2-pub
    ...
    05[CFG] missing private key for profile ikev2-pub
    ...

The identiy is the one from the certificate. Do I have to add additonal options so that charon-cmd know that it should take the private key from the smartcard?

Thanks!
Nathan

[1]: https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SmartCards

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐

On 19 July 2018 5:29 PM, Tobias Brunner <tobias at strongswan.org> wrote:

> ​​
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> > The ids match! So it should be fine!
> 
> Only with strongSwan >= 5.5.1, with older releases the cert/key has to
> 
> be stored using a CKA_ID that matches the SPKI (i.e. your cert/key with
> 
> CKA_ID 3 would never be used).
> 
> > Any other help on why this does possibly not work?
> 
> Do you have strongSwan >= 5.5.1 installed? Did you configure the pkcs11
> 
> plugin properly? Is it loaded and does it enumerate certificates when
> 
> charon-nm is started (check the log for details)?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tobias