[Klug-general] VPN - OpenSSH

[David Halliday]

You can make keys graphically under windows with puttygen (Same place you
get putty from):
http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen

Not sure about a graphical generator for Linux. command line:
http://kb.siteground.com/article/How_to_generate_an_SSH_key_in_Linux.html

<http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter8.html#pubkey-puttygen>Keys
are for authentication (personal/public):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_key_cryptography>I do remember OpenVPN
as being confusing and annoying to configure. I managed it about 3 years ago
now.

On 28 January 2011 16:23, Peter Childs <pchilds at bcs.org> wrote:

> 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?
>
> 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....
>
> Peter.
>
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