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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Eric Dorland
  • Date: 2009-03-29 03:56:10 UTC
  • mto: (8.2.1 squeeze)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 17.
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20090329035610-y7v5a3f0852p4da8
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      VPN – OpenSC
 
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           @import url(trac.css);
 
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          </style></head><body><div id="content" class="wiki">
 
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      <div class="wikipage searchable">
 
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          <h1 id="VirtualPrivateNetworks">Virtual Private Networks</h1>
 
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The common standard for Virtual Private Networks is IPSEC. For linux there are four implementations of IPSEC:
 
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<ul><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.freeswan.org/" shape="rect"><span class="icon">FreeS/WAN</span></a> has no support for smart cards, unless patched with the X.509 patch.
 
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That patch comes with documentation how to use smart cards. FreeS/WAN project has ended, you might want to
 
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use Openswan or strongSwan instead.
 
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</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.openswan.org/" shape="rect"><span class="icon">Openswan</span></a> supports OpenSC natively and must be compiled with OpenSC support.
 
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If that is done, you can find more details in the Openswan documentation:
 
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<a class="ext-link" href="http://www.openswan.org/docs/local/README.x509" shape="rect"><span class="icon">README.x509</span></a> has a chapter 8  about Smartcard support.
 
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</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.strongswan.org/" shape="rect"><span class="icon">strongSwan</span></a> supports smart card authentication using PKCS#11 API. It should
 
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work fine with <tt>opensc-pkcs11.so</tt>, please report your results. Detailed documentation is part of the 
 
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<a class="ext-link" href="http://www.strongswan.org/docs/install.htm#chapter_2.3" shape="rect"><span class="icon">strongSwan documentation</span></a>.
 
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</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://ipsec-tools.sourceforge.net/" shape="rect"><span class="icon">Racoon</span></a> does currently not support smart card authentication.
 
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</li><li><a class="ext-link" href="http://www.openvpn.net/" shape="rect"><span class="icon">OpenVPN</span></a> does support PKCS#11 in current devel version. Successfuly 
 
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tested OpenSC with OpenVPN 2.1beta.7. They have a howto with details on it at <a class="ext-link" href="http://openvpn.net/howto.html" shape="rect"><span class="icon">http://openvpn.net/howto.html</span></a>
 
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