Category Archives: Security

Configuring racoon/ipsec-tools to use x509 Certificates

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

This paper reviews the process to configure racoon/ipsec-tools to authenticate IPSec communications via x509 certificates. Our example does not cover howto configure a Certificate Authority (CA). This process will be examined in another paper. Our example also assumes the clients … Continue reading →

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Configuring IPSec with x509 certificates on OpenBSD

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

This document will explain howto configure OpenBSD’s IPSec to authenticate via a Certificate Authority and x509 certificates. It is demonstrated with OpenBSD 4.1 and depends upon ipsecctl which first appeared in OpenBSD 3.8. First you will need to place your … Continue reading →

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Securing Wireless Communications with IPSec

Posted on January 17, 2007 by jeff

This paper attempts to explain how to configure racoon/ipsec-tools to encrypt wireless communications. Our example does not cover how to configure the wireless gateway as an access point, it assumes that there is a configured wireless access point plugged into … Continue reading →

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