[Swan] Guidance for "complex multi CA certificate situations"

Nels Lindquist nlindq at maei.ca
Thu Aug 24 18:17:08 EEST 2023


On 2023-08-21 2:13 AM, Tuomo Soini wrote:

> If you omit leftca and rightca any valid ca from your nss db is ok
> which is normally what you want.
> 
> Only if you have extra ca certs you want to trust for single connection
> only you are in trouble and you need to duplicate all your connections
> with different local certificate and rightca=%same...
> 
> Some vpn clients only allow gateway to have certificate signed by same
> ca so you might be forced to duplicate your connections for transition
> anyway because your gw certificate must match client certificate ca in
> this case.

Windows is apparently one of the clients in that category, which makes 
up the majority of our roadwarrior clients.

Duplicating the connection with additional local + CA certificates 
worked perfectly.

Thanks very much!

-- 
Nels Lindquist
nlindq at maei.ca



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