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    [Completed] Working eap-tls / pfSense 2.2 - $100 USD

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      eri--
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      Normally you can import only public even though you have both fields you can just import the public part and it will not complain.

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        hege
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        I can import the cert without private key in the CAs tab.
        In the Certificates tab i get the error "The field Key data is required."

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          eri--
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          Anyway can you perform the test from console and after can see this issue as well.

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            hege
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            strongswan seems to ignore the cert completly if it's not referenced in the conf.

            I added the pub, and even the private key to the right directories and after "ipsec rerreadall" it only shows my used pfSense cert with "ipsec listcerts" (and only the CA cert with listcacerts)

            If I add this to the config, the peer cert is available with listcerts
            "rightcert=/var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/certs/peercert.crt"
            but than I get
            "charon: 01[CFG] no matching peer config found"

            I can also see my peer cert after the first successfully connection
            (with eap_identity = "C=, ST=, L=, O=, OU=, CN=, E=*")

            very strange…

            I will build a new test deployment with different certs and clients(also a strongswan client) at the weekend....

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              eri--
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              Can you try instead of eap_identity to put aaa_identity = %any and retry?

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                hege
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                Unfortunately,

                aaa_identity=%any
                and
                aaa_identity=%any
                eap_identity=%any

                Jan 15 20:06:56 charon: 10[IKE] EAP method EAP_TLS failed for peer CLIENT-IP
                Jan 15 20:06:56 charon: 10[TLS] sending fatal TLS alert 'certificate unknown'
                Jan 15 20:06:56 charon: 10[TLS] no trusted certificate found for 'CERT-CN' to verify TLS peer
                Jan 15 20:06:56 charon: 10[TLS] received TLS peer certificate 'C=XX, ST=XXXXXX, L=XXX, O=XXX, OU=XXX, CN=CERT-CN, E=XXX'

                aaa_identity=%identity

                Jan 15 20:08:27 charon: 07[TLS] sending fatal TLS alert 'handshake failure'
                Jan 15 20:08:27 charon: 07[TLS] no usable TLS server certificate found for '%identity'

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                  eri--
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                  What algo is the signature on the client cert, SHA1 something else?

                  Can you validate this cert with the pki –verify tool of strongswan?

                  It is available with pfSense.

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                    hege
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                    sha512 :)

                    pki –verify --in /tmp/VPN-Client.crt --cacert /var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/cacerts/1eb57a16.0.crt

                    using certificate  'C=XX, ST=XXXXXX, L=XXX, O=XXX, OU=XXX, CN=CERT-CN, E=XXX'
                      using trusted ca certificate  'C=XX, ST=XXXXXX, L=XXX, O=XXX, OU=XXX, CN=CA-CERT-CN, E=XXX'
                      reached self-signed root ca with a path length of 0
                    certificate trusted, lifetimes valid

                    I do this tests currently in my private network, at weekend I will create a new test setup with weaker and non sensible certs, so I can give you more information if needed.

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                      eri--
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                      Oh can you try removing the leftid settings from the profile and see if that fixes it?

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                        hege
                        last edited by

                        nope,

                        Jan 15 22:06:23 charon: 13[TLS] no trusted certificate found for 'CERT-CN' to verify TLS peer

                        (with and without eap_identity)

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                          eri--
                          last edited by

                          What if you do even leftauth=eap-tls or as usual but adding rightsendcert=never?

                          Also can you post full ipsec.conf section of the connection?

                          EDIT: also can you see based on this https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Win7EapMultipleConfig

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                            hege
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                            Jan 15 22:15:53 charon: 07[IKE] configured EAP-only authentication, but peer does not support it
                            Jan 15 22:15:53 charon: 07[IKE] <con3|43>configured EAP-only authentication, but peer does not support it

                            
                            conn con3
                                    reqid = 3
                                    fragmentation = yes
                                    keyexchange = ikev2
                                    reauth = yes
                                    forceencaps = no
                                    rekey = yes
                                    installpolicy = yes
                                    type = tunnel
                                    dpdaction = none
                                    auto = add
                                    left = WAN-IP
                                    right = %any
                                    compress = yes
                                    ikelifetime = 28800s
                                    lifetime = 3600s
                                    rightsourceip = 172.16.94.0/24
                                    ike = aes256-sha256-modp1024!
                                    esp = aes256-sha1-modp1024,aes256-sha256-modp1024!
                                    eap_identity=%identity
                                    leftauth=eap-tls
                                    rightauth=eap-tls
                                    leftcert=/var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/certs/cert-3.crt
                                    rightsubnet = 172.16.94.0/24
                                    leftsubnet = 0.0.0.0/0
                            
                            

                            edit: with usual but rightsendcert=never same as always

                            Jan 15 22:19:11 charon: 13[TLS] sending fatal TLS alert 'certificate unknown'
                            Jan 15 22:19:11 charon: 13[TLS] no trusted certificate found for 'Client-CN' to verify TLS peer</con3|43>

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                              eri--
                              last edited by

                              Can you try with as usual but adding rightsendcert=never?

                              Can you also try a config as per  https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Win7EapMultipleConfig

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                                hege
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                                Your link is pointing to a working eap-mschapv2 config (the one I used for my first tests with mschap)

                                I tried it now, and some days ago, with this config and many variations without success
                                https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Win7UserMultipleConfig

                                Windows 8
                                Jan 15 22:36:08 charon: 11[JOB] deleting half open IKE_SA after timeout
                                Jan 15 22:36:00 charon: 11[NET] sending packet: from Server-IP[500] to Client-IP[500] (108 bytes)

                                Windows Phone
                                Jan 15 22:19:11    charon: 13[TLS] sending fatal TLS alert 'certificate unknown'
                                Jan 15 22:19:11    charon: 13[TLS] no trusted certificate found for 'Client-CN' to verify TLS peer

                                conn con3
                                        reqid = 3
                                        fragmentation = yes
                                        keyexchange = ikev2
                                        reauth = yes
                                        forceencaps = no
                                        rekey = yes
                                        installpolicy = yes
                                        type = tunnel
                                        dpdaction = none
                                        auto = add
                                        left = 123.123.123.123
                                        right = %any
                                        compress = yes
                                        ikelifetime = 28800s
                                        lifetime = 3600s
                                        rightsourceip = 172.16.94.0/24
                                        ike = aes256-sha256-modp1024!
                                        esp = aes256-sha1-modp1024,aes256-sha256-modp1024!
                                        leftauth=pubkey
                                        rightauth=eap-tls
                                        leftcert=/var/etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/certs/cert-3.crt
                                        rightsubnet = 172.16.94.0/24
                                        leftsubnet = 0.0.0.0/0
                                        rightsendcert=never
                                

                                I really need some sleep, I will continue until tomorrow evening, and I hope that with the windows 8 debug files it should be easier to find the issue. - Windows Phone is hard to debug.

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                                  hege
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                                  After hours of testing and searching I finally could connect with a workaround, which is unusable for productive use :(

                                  My test environment: (I can give you direct access if you like - just pm me)

                                  Certs generated by pfSense (root cert / vpn cert / client cert - vpn cert with the DNS name as SAN)

                                  
                                  pfSense 2.2 RC Config
                                  	WAN	84.123.123.122
                                  	Lan	192.168.123.1 
                                  	EAP-TLS:
                                  		My identifier: fw.test.domain.local
                                  		My Cert:	fw.test.domain.local (Server Cert / Alt.Name: fw.test.domain.local/ issued by Test-CA)
                                  		My CA:		Test-CA
                                  	P1:	AES 256 / SHA256 / DH2 / Lifetime 28800 / NAT AUto / DPD 10,5
                                  	P2:	Network: 0.0.0.0/0 / ESP / AES256 / SHA1 / PFS OFF / Lifetime 3600
                                  Win 8 Config
                                  	LAN: 84.123.123.123 (direct WAN Access)
                                  	IKEv2 Config:
                                  		Hostname: fw.test.domain.local
                                  		Type: 	IKEv2
                                  		encryption:	Require encryption
                                  		Authentication: EAP
                                  			Use a certificate on this computer (advanced: issued by Test-CA)
                                  			Verify the servers identity
                                  			Connect to these servers
                                  				fw.test.private.domain
                                  			Trusted Root CA:
                                  				Test-CA
                                  			Use a different user name for the connection
                                  
                                  

                                  Connect:
                                  Cert: Test-VPNCLient
                                  Connection user name: C=US, ST=Vienna, L=Vienna, O=Test, E=test@domain.local, CN=Test-VPNClient

                                  Connection and successful traffic to 192.168.123.1 !

                                  Successful connection logs:
                                  Edit: removed connection log

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                                    hege
                                    last edited by

                                    Connection without "Use a different user name for the connection" option and with variations of eap_identity (%any / %identity)

                                    charon: 16[IKE] EAP method EAP_TLS failed for peer 84.123.123.123
                                    ..
                                    charon: 16[TLS] no trusted certificate found for 'Test-VPNClient' to verify TLS peer
                                    ..
                                    charon: 16[TLS] received TLS peer certificate 'C=US, ST=Vienna, L=Vienna, O=Test-Hege, E=test@test.domain, CN=Test-VPNClient'
                                    ..
                                    charon: 13[IKE] received EAP identity 'Test-VPNClient'

                                    Edit: removed the log file

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                                      eri--
                                      last edited by

                                      What do you mean by unusable ?
                                      I did not understand why its unusable for production use?

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                                        hege
                                        last edited by

                                        The VPN-user have to paste the full cert value as his username, which is very long and you can't save this value, so you have to insert this "username" every time.

                                        eap-tls have to work without any user-input.

                                        Also this workaround is not possible on Windows Phone, because you can't specify an username there.

                                        Edit: Maybe that is the solution https://lists.strongswan.org/pipermail/users/2010-October/000814.html - I will try that as soon as possible!
                                        Edit2: Yep, just a client cert issue, such a waste of free time…

                                        Cert requirements,

                                        • Full trust of chain (Root CA have to be installed on the client)

                                        • pfSense Server cert needs the EKU "Server Authentification", also the FQDN in the Subject Alternative Names

                                        • pfSense Client Cert needs the EKU "Client Authentification", also the CN name as a FQDN in the SAN

                                        ermal, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

                                        Please let me know, how I can donate my bounty to pfSense.

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                                          eri--
                                          last edited by

                                          I think buying the gold package is the nearest donate approach :)

                                          Thank you, hege for confirming it works.

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                                            hege
                                            last edited by

                                            done, bit I still owe you a dollar :)

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