Did some investigation. The certificate exchanged for authentication, is to claim that public key carried in the certificate is bounded to the information in certificate and belongs to device or person who sent it.
So basically, we are trying to authenticate the peer's public key. After a certificate exchange, if you issue "sh crypto key pubkey-chain rsa" you can see the public key installed. Now the peers after a successful authentication using digital cert, has installed each other's public key. What are peers going to do with the public keys? There should something else why would it be implemented like that? http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ Guys I know this out of the scope but I am trying to understand the Digital cert authentication and have been working for quite a long time. Please hit me with your best shot. I am close but missing a small bit of the map to the treasure island :-) With regads Kings On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Kingsley Charles < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > With digital certificate authentication between Party A and B trying to > establish an IPSec connection, the private and public keys are used which is > used as following > > CA server Private Key - Used to encrypted the hash (signature) attached to > the party's certificate. > CA server Public key - The IPSec peer decrypts the hash using CA public Key > which it got from the CA server's root cert. > Party A Private Key - The party A encrypts the hash using it's private key > Party B Public Key - The Party sends it's public key to party B in the > certificate. Party B used the public key to decrypt the hash. > > Party B calculate the hash of the Party B certificate and compares it with > the hash received. If the hash matches, authentication is successful. > > The same happens vice versa to authenticate Party A > > Is my understanding on the private and public purpose is correct? > > I have been working this for a long time but not able to get the exact > picture. > > RFC 2409 is very user friendly readable version :-) > > > With regards > Kings >
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