"Victor Berdin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/29/2003 12:38:45 AM:

> For your Bering <====> Win2K setup
> (btw, what VPN interop setup are you trtying to implement?)

If it were only that easy...

I'm connecting my Bering firewall to XYZ firewall, having only been given a
.p12 file...

> If you're still using the Bering script to generate the certificates,

I wish.  I am not generating any keys.  I only have the .p12 file.

> > Am I correct so far?  And what should I do for a CRL?
>
> You should do nothing with it actually, unless you wish to revoke a
> valid
> certificate. To get get a more human-readable status on requests done
> to
> the CA, you can view the 'index.txt' file. This should show the 'V/R'
> flags
> that indicate whether the certs are still Valid or Revoked.
> You should really dig deeper into the howtos of OpenSSL to understand
> these files and their usage.
>
> > Sigh.  I really wish I could generate a couple of RSA keys, share
> them
> > between the firewalls and call it a day...  :(
> >
> > Tim Massey
>
> Unfortunately, you can't with Windows interop. But what you can do to
> make things much-much, very much simpler, is to use PSK instead
> (or for starters). Then once your setup is already working, go try
> using
> the certs once more.

Thank you very much for the suggestions.  Unfortunately, there are two
things complicating this:  1) I only have control of my side, and 2) I am
not generating the keys.

Tim Massey



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