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Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver

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Open source smart card tools and middleware. PKCS#11/MiniDriver

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Observed mentions: 2017-02-15 20:50:14 UTC to 2026-02-06 15:19:23 UTC.

02462017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 4 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC642
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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rantam0ct·Feb 15, 2017
No idea for #1, but regarding multifactor, I've used Strongswan with Feitian PKI smartcards. Basically, I have one card that I set up as a CA and use to sign CSRs for "user" smartcards as well as for the VPN servers. You need to have your card and PIN to connect. The private keys are stored on the cards - no PSKs. This is something cool to do if you are cheap. You may be able to do this with Yubikeys, though I haven't tried this. https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/SmartCa... https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wiki/Feitian-PKI-card edit: Some quick and dirty instructions to generate keys/certs that you can use with a Linux or Android client: git clone https://github.com/ramann/smartcard-pki cd smartcard-pki git checkout vpn-phone # Edit etc/vpn_server.conf to use your server's IP address bash -x <(cat README.md | grep '`' |
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tr -d '`') # You really should generate the VPN server's key & request on the VPN server, but this is just to get something working # Move vpn_server_key.pem, ca/signing-ca.crt, certs/vpn_server.crt, certs/phone.pem to your VPN server's /etc/ipsec.d/ # Edit your VPN server's /etc/ipsec.conf so that leftcert=vpn_server.crt and rightcert=phone.crt # To set up your Android phone, just import the phone-and-ca.pfx file # To set up your Linux client (Ubuntu 16.04 in my case), move phone_key.pem, ca/signing-ca.crt, certs/vpn_server.crt, and certs/phone.crt to /etc/ipsec.d # Edit your client's /etc/ipsec.conf so that leftcert=phone.crt and rightcert=vpn_server.crt # To start server: sudo ipsec start # How to start the Android client should be obvious. # To start linux client: sudo ipsec start; sudo ipsec up connection_name
In StrongSwan – IPsec VPN for Linux, Android, FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Windows

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