You can make keys graphically under windows with puttygen (Same place you get putty from):<div><a href="http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen">http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Not sure about a graphical generator for Linux. command line: <a href="http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_generate_an_SSH_key_in_Linux.html">http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_generate_an_SSH_key_in_Linux.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen"></a>Keys are for authentication (personal/public): <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography"></a>I do remember OpenVPN as being confusing and annoying to configure. I managed it about 3 years ago now.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 28 January 2011 16:23, Peter Childs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pchilds@bcs.org">pchilds@bcs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Does anyone know where I can find some understandable instructions on how to set up a VPN using OpenVPN possibly with some kind of UI for setting up the keys, and what Keys do what?<div><br></div><div>Its just the instructions are all very well but I'm yet to work out what I need to do with the 3 certificates, and 2 or more odd keys the instructions seam to tell me to create....</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Peter.</div>
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