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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-08-30 12:50:41 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2006-08-30 12:50:41 +0000
commita2a73ed464b07b507cb0d7633360284b720681a5 (patch)
tree2ad29a3039e046842311475e74aa11d54ac80a7b /sbin
parentabcfb41d75a1ec6b5e77270e08144a3106dbd7e2 (diff)
remove some repeated text, and shuffle a little;
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin')
-rw-r--r--sbin/ipsecctl/ipsec.conf.536
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/ipsecctl/ipsec.conf.5 b/sbin/ipsecctl/ipsec.conf.5
index d7b1523826b..80d9dee4da0 100644
--- a/sbin/ipsecctl/ipsec.conf.5
+++ b/sbin/ipsecctl/ipsec.conf.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.conf.5,v 1.68 2006/08/30 12:31:07 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: ipsec.conf.5,v 1.69 2006/08/30 12:50:40 jmc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Mathieu Sauve-Frankel All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -644,12 +644,16 @@ and is specified as follows:
.Bd -literal -offset -indent
authkey file "filename"
.Ed
+.Pp
+It is also possible to specify two values separated by a colon.
+.Xr ipsecctl 8
+will then generate the matching incoming SA using the second values specified.
.It Xo
.Ic enckey
.Aq Ar keyspec
.Xc
-The encryption key is defined similar to
-.Ar authkey .
+The encryption key is defined similarly to
+.Ic authkey .
.It Xo
.Ic tcpmd5
.Ic from
@@ -683,31 +687,7 @@ and destination address
The parameter
.Ic spi
is a 32-bit value defining the Security Parameter Index (SPI) for this SA.
-.Pp
-The authentication key to be used is a hexadecimal string of arbitrary length
-or a path to a file containing the key.
-The filename may be given as either an absolute path to the file
-or a relative pathname,
-and is specified as follows:
-.Bd -literal -offset -indent
-authkey file "filename"
-.Ed
-.Pp
-It is very important that the key is not guessable.
-One practical way of generating 160-bit (20-byte) keys is as follows:
-.Bd -literal -offset indent
-$ openssl rand 20 | hexdump -e '20/1 "%02x"'
-.Ed
-.Pp
-For both
-.Ic spi
-and
-.Ic authkey
-it is possible to specify two values separated by a colon.
-.Xr ipsecctl 8
-will then generate the matching incoming SA using the second values for
-.Ic spi
-and
+The encryption key is defined similarly to
.Ic authkey .
.Pp
For details on how to enable TCP MD5 signatures see