The cert-enroll script handles the initial enrollment of an X.509
host certificate with a PKI server via the EST or SCEP protocols.
Run as a systemd timer or via a crontab entry the script daily
checks the expiration date of the host certificate. When a given
deadline is reached, the host certificate is automatically renewed
via EST or SCEP re-enrollment based on the possession of the old
private key and the matching certificate.
The x509 plugin retrieves serial numbers with two's complement
encoding whereas the openssl plugin partially returns them without
leading zeroes.
Serial numbers in X.509 certificates, X.509 CRL, X.509 attribute
certificates, OCSP Requests and OCSP responses are now returned in
canonical form without prepended zero octets.
Some third party IKEv2 products expect an RSA-PSS ASN.1
algorithmIdentifier with an explicit trailerField value (CONTEXT3)
instead of the DEFAULT value if the trailerField is missing.
The setting charon.rsa_pss_trailerfield = yes enables the explicit
encoding.
When an X.509 certificate has to be renewed it is helpful to use
the old PKCS#10 certificate request as a template, so that the
distinguishedName (DN), the subjectAlternativeName (SAN) and
a certificate profile name don't have to be typed-in again.
The old public key in the existing certreq is replaced with the
new key and the signature is re-generated using the new private key.
In order for libtls to run with the gcrypt libraryi, additionally the
random, pem, gcm, hmac, kdf, x509, constraints, and the curve2519
plugins are needed.
The botan library additionally need the hmac (for HMAC_MD5), x509 and
constraints plugins.
The wolfssl library additionally need the pkcs1, pkcs8, x509 and constraints
plugins.
With the --keyid option private keys stored on a smartcard or in
a TPM 2.0 can be used for public key based client authentication.
With the --certid option the corresponding client certificate
can reside on a smartcard or a TPM 2.0.
The gcm plugin has been added to the default plugins and all
certificate types are loaded to allow the libtls socket unit
tests to run with the strongSwan default plugins.
Currently when a TLS client doesn't have a certificate, it doesn't
send a certficiate payload upon receiving a certificate request
from the TLS server. According to the TLS 1.2 and 1.3 RFCs an
empty certificate payload must be sent.
The msCertificateTypeExtension OID (1.3.6.1.4.1.311.20.2) can
be used in a PKCS#10 certificate request to define a certificate
profile. It consists of an UTF8 string.
pki: profile option
The "ipsec scepclient" tool has been removed and replaced by the
pki subcommands "pki --scep" and "pki --scepca" which implement the
new SCEP RFC 8894 standard that was released in September 2020 and
which supports trusted "certificate renewal" based on the existing
client certificate.
The content field of type OCTET STRING of a ContentInfo object
with ContentType Data
ContentInfo ::= SEQUENCE {
contentType ContentType,
content
[0] EXPLICIT OCTET STRING OPTIONAL
is optional and can be missing if no data is available
This collection of Internet standards and drafts hadn't been
updated for a long time and the documents are readily available
on the Internet anyway. The strongSwan documentation page
https://docs.strongswan.org/docs/5.9/features/ietf.html
specifies which standards are currently supported.
The TCG TNC IF-M Segmentation standard was implemented based on a
draft version. The attribute names are updated to comply with the
final TCG IF-M Segmentation Specification Version 1.0 Rev. 5
dated 4 April 2016
The logrotate function causes the apt history to be split into
several parts at arbitrary points in time. If history.log only
is parsed then some package installation changes stored in
zipped backup history files might get lost.
Thus sw-collector now searches all backup history files until
a date older than the current event stored in the collector.db
database is found, so that no entries get overlooked.
Using the trusted RSA or ECC Endorsement Key of the TPM 2.0 a
secure session is established via RSA public key encryption or
an ephemeral ECDH key exchange, respectively.
The session allows HMAC-based authenticated communication with
the TPM 2.0 and the exchanged parameters can be encrypted where
necessary to guarantee confidentiality.
Andreas Steffen