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Re: [Users] ipsec.secrets

From: Xu, Jia (xujia_at_is.ac.cn)
Date: Tue May 14 2002 - 03:36:37 CEST

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I think PSK is just the Pre-Shared Secret. So you should be careful about the access control of the file ipsec.secrets.

Xu, Jia
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State Key Lab of Information Security
Chinese Academy of Sciences

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Hadjichristofi" <ghadjich_at_adelphia.net>
To: "Freeswan" <linux-ipsec_at_freeswan.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:43 PM
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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