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OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks

You're reading from   OpenVPN: Building and Integrating Virtual Private Networks Learn how to build secure VPNs using this powerful Open Source application

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2006
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781904811855
Length 270 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

OpenVPN
1. Credits
2. About the Author
3. About the Reviewers
4. Preface
1. VPN—Virtual Private Network FREE CHAPTER 2. VPN Security 3. OpenVPN 4. Installing OpenVPN 5. Configuring an OpenVPN Server—The First Tunnel 6. Setting Up OpenVPN with X509 Certificates 7. The Command openvpn and its Configuration File 8. Securing OpenVPN Tunnels and Servers 9. Advanced Certificate Management 10. Advanced OpenVPN Configuration 11. Troubleshooting and Monitoring Index

Distributing the Files to the VPN Partners


Again, in your keys directory you will find three new files VPN-client.csr, VPN-client.key, and VPN-client.crt, two of which need to be transferred to the VPN partner. Do you know which ones, already? The following table gives an overview of the files we have created up to now and the ones that have to be transferred to our client.

File

Location and purpose

VPN-Server.crt

Signed certificate of the VPN-Server, must be on VPN-Server

VPN-Server.key

Private RSA key of the VPN-Server, must be on VPN-Server

VPN-Server.csr

Certificate signing request of VPN-Server, can be deleted

VPN-client.crt

Signed certificate of the VPN-client, must be on VPN-client

VPN-client.key

Private RSA key of the VPN-client, must be on VPN-client

VPN-client.csr

Certificate Signing request of VPN-Client, can be deleted

ca.crt

CA certificate, must be available on both machines

ca.key

The key to the CA, must be kept only on CA; must be kept very secret

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