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OpenVPN Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenVPN Cookbook Get the most out of OpenVPN by exploring it's advanced features.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
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ISBN-13 9781786463128
Length 400 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Point-to-Point Networks FREE CHAPTER 2. Client-server IP-only Networks 3. Client-server Ethernet-style Networks 4. PKI, Certificates, and OpenSSL 5. Scripting and Plugins 6. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Configurations 7. Troubleshooting OpenVPN - Routing 8. Performance Tuning 9. OS Integration 10. Advanced Configuration

Determining the crypto library to be used


Starting with OpenVPN 2.3, it became possible to build OpenVPN using either the OpenSSL cryptographic library or the PolarSSL library. The PolarSSL library is nowadays known as "mbedTLS". The PolarSSL library is used in the OpenVPN Connect apps for both Android and iOS, but the library can be used on all other supported platforms as well.

The goal of this recipe is to show how to determine which cryptographic library is used, including the run-time version number.

Getting ready

Set up the server certificate using the first recipe from Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks. Use the client certificate and the intermediary CA certificate from the previous recipe. For this recipe, the computer was running Fedora 22 Linux and OpenVPN 2.3.10, built both for OpenSSL and for PolarSSL. Keep the server configuration file basic-udp-server.conf from the Server-side routing recipe in Chapter 2, Client-server IP-only Networks.

How to do it...

  1. Start the regular...

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