[Vpn-help] Fix for faulty remote ID checking ...

Matthew Grooms mgrooms at shrew.net
Fri Sep 15 19:43:47 CDT 2006


Matthew Grooms wrote:
> Peter Eisch wrote:
>> On 9/15/06 12:24 PM, "Matthew Grooms" <mgrooms at shrew.net> wrote:
>>
>>>> It would seem to me that the client should make some effort to auth the
>>>> server given the policy. Oddly I like the behavior, but it doesn't seem
>>>> to make any sense or could be seen to be a security hole.
>>>>  
>>>> Bewildered,
>>>>  
> 
> Peter,
> 
> 	Well, that wasn't fun. I ran out of state bits so I had to split the 
> life and transmit state into two bit masks. This meant I had to touch 
> every state set/check in ipsecd. Anyhow, here is the result ...
> 
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> r635 | mgrooms | 2006-09-15 16:10:41 +0000 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006) | 3 lines
> 
> Split the SA state flags into life stat and transmit state flags. We ran
> out of bit flags.
> 
> Rework the peer identity check code. Match the ID values and optionally
> send a notification when a failure occurs.
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> 

Sorry folks, I think I found a problem with the matching for asn1dn ID 
types. There maybe something fundamental I am missing wrt this type of 
ID and how they relate to certificate requests. I will dig through the 
RFC's and racoon and re-post a new build when I have this sorted out.

Thanks,

-Matthew



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