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      dj_seijin
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      +100

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        eri--
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        You can restrict the character set already only to numbers.
        But without some financial backing i do not think anyone will do the modifications.

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          sandern
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          Create a shorter private key and modify the roll/ticket/checksum bits accordingly.

          My vouchers are 6 characters long.

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            nabachi
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            @sandern:

            Create a shorter private key and modify the roll/ticket/checksum bits accordingly.

            My vouchers are 6 characters long.

            Hi,

            Can you please elaborate more on this. How did you create a shorter Key? I was getting an error when i tried to create a 6-bit key. Any Help would be great.

            Thanks

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              valshare
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              Hi, the shortest key i was able to create with openssl was a 32bit key. With this, i was ables to create a 8-10 length Voucher key.

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                nabachi
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                ah, so i must be doing something wrong in the voucher configuration. :)

                Which values did you use in number of roll, ticket and checksum?

                I am now trying out different values in the configuration. 8 - 10 characters is good in my opinion.

                Thanks Valshare

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                  nabachi
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                  Hi again,

                  I couldn't make the voucher length shorter than 20 characters. Rolls and Ticket bits seems to effect the number of voucher rolls and tickets which can be created under each roll or tickets.

                  Kind Regards

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                    valshare
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                    Hi,

                    here are my setting. You must delete the old tickets and create new ones.

                    Regards, Valle

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                      valshare
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                      there is an error in the "# of Roll Bits". This must be 15 to leave room the place the magic initializer.

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                        nabachi
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                        @valshare:

                        Hi,

                        here are my setting. You must delete the old tickets and create new ones.

                        Regards, Valle

                        Hi Valle,

                        Thanks to you, i was able to generate 10 - 7 character long voucher  :)

                        I was able to generate 7 character log vouchers with the default voucher configs from a fresh installation of pfsense 2.0. I had 20 character voucher's after i changed "character set" to 123456789.

                        Many Thanks & Kind Regards

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                          klamath
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                          @sandern:

                          Create a shorter private key and modify the roll/ticket/checksum bits accordingly.

                          My vouchers are 6 characters long.

                          explain how to do it, please!

                          HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L - 2GB - 250G HD - 3 NIC Intel PRO/1000 MT Gigabit PCI
                          pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64)

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                            sandern
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                            Hi,

                            First generate a key "openssl genrsa 30 > key.private"

                            I'm not sure about the 30 but I tried a few times to get the smallest possible number, it was 29-30-31 or something. The lowest one it would accept.

                            Then openssl rsa -pubout < key.private >key.public

                            And use the following values in the configuration screen:

                            Roll bits: #5 (This can be more but we didn't have to use many different rolls)
                            Ticket bits: #16
                            Checksum bits: #5

                            With this values I had a roll with 1023 vouchers with a length of 5-6 characters.

                            Sander

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                              klamath
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                              @sandern:

                              Hi,

                              First generate a key "openssl genrsa 30 > key.private"

                              I'm not sure about the 30 but I tried a few times to get the smallest possible number, it was 29-30-31 or something. The lowest one it would accept.

                              Then openssl rsa -pubout < key.private >key.public

                              And use the following values in the configuration screen:

                              Roll bits: #5 (This can be more but we didn't have to use many different rolls)
                              Ticket bits: #16
                              Checksum bits: #5

                              With this values I had a roll with 1023 vouchers with a length of 5-6 characters.

                              Sander

                              Thanks!!!
                              works only with 31… i got error with 30!

                              "openssl genrsa 31 > key.private"

                              The vouchers is now with  7 characters length!

                              Work like a charm!!!
                              THANKS!!! THANKS!!! THANKS!!!

                              HP ProLiant MicroServer N40L - 2GB - 250G HD - 3 NIC Intel PRO/1000 MT Gigabit PCI
                              pfSense 2.0.1-RELEASE (amd64)

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                                brunoguidone
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                                @sandern:

                                Hi,

                                First generate a key "openssl genrsa 30 > key.private"

                                I'm not sure about the 30 but I tried a few times to get the smallest possible number, it was 29-30-31 or something. The lowest one it would accept.

                                Then openssl rsa -pubout < key.private >key.public

                                And use the following values in the configuration screen:

                                Roll bits: #5 (This can be more but we didn't have to use many different rolls)
                                Ticket bits: #16
                                Checksum bits: #5

                                With this values I had a roll with 1023 vouchers with a length of 5-6 characters.

                                Sander

                                Sorry, can you explain better?
                                because it still doesn't work. I need to generate a voucher with 6 characters.

                                Thanks for help,
                                Bruno

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                                  wallabybob
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                                  What parameters did you try? What was the outcome?

                                  How many characters do you have in your set of available characters for voucher codes?

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                                    brunoguidone
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                                    @wallabybob:

                                    What parameters did you try? What was the outcome?

                                    How many characters do you have in your set of available characters for voucher codes?

                                    Hi Wallabybob
                                    That's my configuration:
                                    .
                                    I tried all combinations and stays longer than 10 characters. Can you help me, please ?

                                    Thanks,
                                    Bruno

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                                      wallabybob
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                                      @brunoguidone:

                                      Can you help me, please ?

                                      I have not read the voucher handling code so I'm guessing. After reading this thread a few times I SUSPECT Sandern left out a step in his instructions: I suspect that the contents of the key.private and key.public files should be pasted into the corresponding key boxes on the voucher configuration page. Did you do that?

                                      I suspect the default keys need to be replaced by shorter keys to produce a shorter length voucher code. Possibly a smaller magic number will also help.

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                                        brunoguidone
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                                        @wallabybob:

                                        @brunoguidone:

                                        Can you help me, please ?

                                        I have not read the voucher handling code so I'm guessing. After reading this thread a few times I SUSPECT Sandern left out a step in his instructions: I suspect that the contents of the key.private and key.public files should be pasted into the corresponding key boxes on the voucher configuration page. Did you do that?

                                        I suspect the default keys need to be replaced by shorter keys to produce a shorter length voucher code. Possibly a smaller magic number will also help.

                                        Hi Wallabybob,
                                        thank you so much !!! Its Works!! was really missing copy content to the correct fields.

                                        Thanks,
                                        Bruno

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                                          wallabybob
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                                          Thanks for reporting back.

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                                            rinx
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                                            Hello!

                                            I have the same requirement as the topicstarter and I need to have vauchers with 6 sumbols.
                                            I tried to follow instructions described in all replies.

                                            run:

                                            openssl genrsa 30 > key.private
                                            openssl rsa -pubout < key.private >key.public

                                            Used the following values in the configuration screen:

                                            Roll bits: #5 (This can be more but we didn't have to use many different rolls)
                                            Ticket bits: #16
                                            Checksum bits: #5

                                            deleted and recreated vouchers. Didn't work. Still have vouchers with 11 characters lenght.

                                            As I suppose I will have to "the contents of the key.private and key.public files should be pasted into the corresponding key boxes on the voucher configuration page"

                                            I know where to instert the new private and public keys, however I have no idea how to extract new generated private and public keys.

                                            Can you please explain me how to do it step by step?

                                            Thanks in advance!

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