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14: Security in Detail

Steel Belted RADIUS

Steel Belted RADIUS is a commercial RADIUS server from Juniper Networks that provides a GUI administration interface. It also provides a certificate request and self-signed certificate generator.

The self-signed certificate has extension .sbrpvk and is in the PKCS12 format. OpenSSL can convert this into a PEM format certificate and key:

openssl pkcs12 -in sbr_certkey.sbrpvk -nodes -out sbr_certkey.pem

The sbr_certkey.pem file contains both certificate and key. If loading the SBR certificate into PremierWave XN as an authority, you will need to edit it:

1.Open the file in any plain text editor.

2.Delete all info before "----- BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and after "----- END

CERTIFICATE----- ", and then save as sbr_cert.pem.

SBR accepts trusted-root certificates in the DER format. Again, OpenSSL can convert any format into DER:

openssl x509 -inform pem -in mp_cert.pem -outform der -out mp_cert.der

Note: With SBR, when the identity information includes special characters such as dashes and periods, SBR changes the format it uses to store these strings and becomes incompatible with the current PremierWave XN release. Support may be added for this and other formats in future releases.

Free RADIUS

Free RADIUS is another versatile Linux open-source RADIUS server.

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