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  1. The roadwarrior <b>carol</b> and the gateway <b>moon</b> use the <b>openssl</b>
  2. plugin based on the <b>OpenSSL</b> library for all cryptographical and X.509
  3. certificate functions whereas roadwarrior <b>dave</b> uses the default <b>strongSwan</b>
  4. cryptographical plugins <b>aes des sha1 sha2 hmac gmp x509</b> plus the <b>openssl</b>
  5. plugin for the Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman groups only.
  6. <p>
  7. The roadwarriors <b>carol</b> and <b>dave</b> set up a connection each
  8. to gateway <b>moon</b>. The authentication is based on <b>X.509 certificates</b>.
  9. <b>carol</b> proposes the <b>Brainpool</b> DH groups ECP_384_BP and ECP_224_BP whereas
  10. <b>dave</b> proposes ECP_384_BP and ECP_256_BP. Since <b>moon</b> does not support
  11. ECP_384_BP the roadwarriors fall back to ECP_224_BP and ECP_256_BP, respectively.
  12. <p>
  13. Upon the successful establishment of the IPsec tunnels, the updown script automatically
  14. inserts iptables-based firewall rules that let pass the tunneled traffic.
  15. In order to test both tunnel and firewall, both <b>carol</b> and <b>dave</b> ping
  16. the client <b>alice</b> behind the gateway <b>moon</b>.