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NETGEAR DGFV338 - ProSafe Wireless ADSL Modem VPN Firewall Router Use Manual page 3

Using certificates as authentication method for vpn connections between netgear prosafe routers and the prosafe vpn client
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Creating your own Certificate Authority with OpenSSL
1- In first step you need to create your own CA. To do that, follow the instructions
documented in here:
2- Netgear doesn't support ST relative distinguish name so please edit the openssl.cfg (in
the original location and in your new CA folder) to avoid using this parameter.
3-
From the guide linked above, you need only to execute all the commands up to step 4.
The certificate request step and beyond will be handled by the router.
4-
Next – please generate Self Certificate Request specifying the following parameters:
5- Click on: "View" for generated certificate request to check its values:
http://sandbox.rulemaker.net/ngps/m2/howto.ca.html
1- Name: first
2- Subject: CN=router1
3- Hash Algorithm: MD5
4- Signature Algorithm: RSA
5- Signature Key Length: 1024
6- Click on Generate
Copy all the information from
the Data to supply to CA field
to the text file router1.csr
Version 2.0

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