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RE: [Users] ipsec.secrets

From: James Selph (jselph_at_icanon.com)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 17:53:58 CEST

George,

Yes it represents the Pre-Shared Key and yes if you leave the ipsec.secrets
file with any permissions other than read write on the superuser it can be
read and used against you.

This is addressed in the documentation at:

http://liberty.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/manpage.d/ipsec
.secrets.5.html

James

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:users-admin_at_lists.freeswan.org]On Behalf Of George
> Hadjichristofi
> Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:44 AM
> To: Freeswan
> Subject: [Users] ipsec.secrets
>
>
> Hi,
>
> In the ipsec.secrets file is the "PSK" value, the shared-key
> value, OR is it
> used to generated the shared key ?
> Can somebody just get that value and used it in a way to violate the
> security of the tunnel?
>
>
> Thanks
> George
>
>
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