[Swan-dev] Symmetric vs Asymmetric authentication

Balaji Thoguluva tbbalaji at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 17:04:01 UTC 2020


Hi Folks,

It would be great if someone could answer it.

Thanks,
Balaji

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 1:35 PM Balaji Thoguluva <tbbalaji at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> What is the definition of symmetric and asymmetric authentication in the
> context of Libreswan?
>
> If both ends are using the same mode of authentication for example, both
> use PSK or both use X.509 certificate-based authentication, are they
> considered symmetric authentication?
>
> Thanks,
> Balaji
>
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