IPsec and user certificates

[Riccardo]

I use to share my disc with a couple of computer with the Vista Adv.
Firewall set to "Allow only secure connections" and preshared key as IPsec
authentication method.
I would like to use the user certificates method in IPsec and of course I
don't have an official certificate. Is there somebody who can teach me how
to generate a personal certificate and share this certificate with the
other computers?
Is there someting like the ssh public and private key generation?
Thanks in advance,
Riccardo

 

[Jesper]

RE: IPsec and user certificates

You will need to install a certificate server to do that. Windows Vista does
not have one. The Server versions of Windows do though, but setting them up
is non-trivial. This is a good place to get started:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/pki/default.mspx

---
Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470101555?ie=UTF8&tag=protectyourwi-20


"Riccardo" wrote:

> I use to share my disc with a couple of computer with the Vista Adv.
> Firewall set to "Allow only secure connections" and preshared key as IPsec
> authentication method.
> I would like to use the user certificates method in IPsec and of course I
> don't have an official certificate. Is there somebody who can teach me how
> to generate a personal certificate and share this certificate with the
> other computers?
> Is there someting like the ssh public and private key generation?
> Thanks in advance,
> Riccardo
>

 

[Riccardo]

Re: IPsec and user certificates

Thank you Jesper
Ciao
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Riccardo


"Jesper" <Jesper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A40C44DC-00EF-48C8-A0D9-3D2B296FF27B@microsoft.com...
> You will need to install a certificate server to do that. Windows Vista
> does
> not have one. The Server versions of Windows do though, but setting them
> up
> is non-trivial. This is a good place to get started:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/technologies/pki/default.mspx
>
> ---
> Your question may already be answered in Windows Vista Security:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0470101555?ie=UTF8&tag=protectyourwi-20
>
>
> "Riccardo" wrote:
>
>> I use to share my disc with a couple of computer with the Vista Adv.
>> Firewall set to "Allow only secure connections" and preshared key as
>> IPsec
>> authentication method.
>> I would like to use the user certificates method in IPsec and of course I
>> don't have an official certificate. Is there somebody who can teach me
>> how
>> to generate a personal certificate and share this certificate with the
>> other computers?
>> Is there someting like the ssh public and private key generation?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Riccardo
>>