Need review of adding X.509 certs to Strongswan

Philip Prindeville philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com
Fri Jan 22 19:46:29 EST 2021


I'll try splitting it into smaller pieces as well.

https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/14535


> On Jan 22, 2021, at 11:47 AM, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I posted the following PR some time ago (late November) and it's languishing:
> 
> https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/14028
> 
> Can I get some reviews of it?
> 
> X.509 authentication is a more attractive alternative to simple PSK authentication (more entropy, less susceptible to dictionary attacks, etc).
> 
> It's a short series of commits that do:
> 
> * suppress multiple logging in /var/log/messages for authentication messages;
> * adds the /etc/swanctl/conf.d/ which is read from /etc/swanctl/swanctl.conf but doesn't exist;
> * cleans up some of the UCI and corrects the handling of the "updown" and "firewall" scripts (there is no "left" or "right" version, since it's always local by definition);
> * adds new parameters "reauth", "fragmentation", "closeaction", "mobile" for greater completeness;
> * the X.509 support, which is the most important part of this PR, but is actually a fairly trivial change;
> * add support for a global "setup" config section, which contains the "cachecrls", "charondebug", "strictcrlpolicy", and "uniqueids" parameters;
> 
> It's all Shell and UCI changes, and the relevant .conf generation.  Pretty straightforward.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Philip
> 
> 
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