HP-UX IPSec and HP-UX Mobile IPv6

Configuration Overview

Using Manual Keys

Mobile IPv6 uses manual key Security Associations (SAs). Manual key SAs do not use IKE to generate and distribute encryption keys. Instead, the administrator manually configures and distributes the encryption keys.

Selecting Encryption Keys

You should configure strong, random, encryption keys for manual key SAs. If you are using DES or 3DES encryption, and the key is not sufficiently strong, ipsec_config reports an error messages similar to one of the following:

Weak DES encryption key: 0xhhhh....

Weak 3DES encryption key: 0xhhhh....

Using the HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator

One way to generate strong encryption keys is using the HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator product, available at no cost from the HP Software Depot (http://software.hp.com). After you have installed the HP-UX Strong Random Number Generator, you can generate a random number and use the od utility to display an ASCII string of the hexadecimal digits by executing the following command sequence:

od -Ax -Nnn /dev/random

nnis the number of bytes to extract from the random number generator. For example, the following command extracts and displays a 24-byte random number for a 3DES encryption key:

od -Ax -N24 /dev/random

Troubleshooting Manual Key Problems

Troubleshooting manual key problems can be difficult because there are no IKE negotiations and no IKE audit messages. See Chapter 5, “Manual Keys Fail” on page 178 for information on troubleshooting manual keys.

Configuration Procedure

Use the following procedure to configure HP-UX IPSec on a Mobile IPv6 Home Agent.

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