[Swan] ipsec newhostkey / showhostkey does not work well in 3.17

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Tue May 3 15:29:27 UTC 2016


On Tue, 3 May 2016, Noam Singer wrote:

> I just installed LibreSwan 3.17 on a fresh machine
> 
> I tried creating a public-key using the following basic script
> 
>     echo "" > /tmp/nsspassword
>     rm -f /etc/ipsec.secrets
>     certutil -N -d /etc/ipsec.d -f /tmp/nsspassword
>     ipsec newhostkey --output /etc/ipsec.secrets --configdir /etc/ipsec.d --seeddev
> /dev/urandom --bits 2192
> 
> However, for some reason, the generated /etc/ipsec.secrets does not contain the Modules
> lines.
> 
> Is this a new bug in 3.17 or am I doing something wrong?

It's a new bug in 3.17. It was not supposed to require the modules. We
are working on fixing that. For now, please use 3.16 to generate the
keys.

Paul


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