Virtual Private Networking
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Certificate Management
x.509 Certificates
can be used to authenticate IPSec endpoints during tunnel negotiation
for Automatic Keying. The other methods are
Preshared Secrets
and
RSA Digital
Signatures
.
Certificates need to be uploaded to the SnapGear appliance before they can be used in a
tunnel. Certificates have time durations in which they are valid. Ensure that the
certificates uploaded are valid and that the
Date and Time
settings have been set
correctly on the SnapGear appliance.
The SnapGear appliance only supports certificates in
base64 PEM
or
binary DER
format.
Some Certificate Authorities (CA) distribute certificates in a
PKCS#12
format file and the
CA, local public key and private key certificates must be extracted or created before
uploading them into the SnapGear appliance.
Extracting certificates
Use the
openssl
application tool on the SnapGear CD to extract these certificates (ensure
the
cygwin1.dll
library is in the same directory as the
openssl
application). To extract the
CA certificate, enter the following at the Windows command prompt:
openssl pkcs12 -nomacver -cacerts -nokeys -in pkcs12_file -out ca_certificate.pem
.. where
pksc12_file
is the PKCS#12 file issued by the CA and
ca_certificate.pem
is
the CA certificate to be uploaded into the SnapGear appliance.
The application will prompt you to
Enter Import Password
. Enter the password used to
create the certificate. If none was used simply press enter.
To extract the local public key certificate type, enter the following at the Windows
command prompt:
openssl pkcs12 -nomacver -clcerts -nokeys -in pkcs12_file -out
local_certificate.pem
.. where
pksc12_file
is the PKCS#12 file issued by the CA and
local_certificate.pem
is
the local public key certificate to be uploaded into the SnapGear appliance.
The application will prompt you to
Enter Import Password
. Enter the password used to
create the certificate. If none was used simply press enter.
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