Serial Key Generator. Serial Key Generator is a program to help developers generate serial numbers for applications. You can generate serial keys using a custom number of columns and characters per column. The sequence of numbers/digits can be defined in the application. The output can be saved as CSV or TXT documents. Then the tool will take your two keys, add a unique salt for that 24 hour period, and generate a nasty PSK that no person would ever guess - and that has never been transmitted over any medium, ever. This page uses Javascript, and alas, your browser does not support it. Generate a pre shared key (PSK) for use in this VPN. PSK is really not a password, it's a key and you must make absolutely sure it is transferred to remote end in a secure way by using PGP/GPG or ssh. Secure PSK should be at. Chapter 11 IPsec VPN for FortiOS 5.0: Auto Key phase 1 parameters.
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Insight: Multiple Way To Generate a Strong Pre-Shared Key (PSK) in Linux
This blog post is for you if you are looking for the answer to your question ” How to generate a strong pre-shared key (PSK) in Linux based operating system.
In this article, we will use multiple ways to generate a strong pre-shared key in Linux based operating system.
GPG is a command-line tool that is used to provide digital encryption and signing services. It uses the OpenPGP standard. To generate a strong pre-shared key, you need to use its --gen-random
option. Run the following command to generate the password.You might get confused in the following example, 1 or 2 is the quality level and 20, 40, and 70 are the character counts.
You can use the rand option to generate the strong PSK password in Linux.
The date and sha256sum command can be used together in Linux to create a strong PSK as follows.
The last option in our article is using pseudorandom number generators to create a strong password in Linux.
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You are building a site to site VPN and need to exchange the PSK. However you are not allowed to email it, and TXTing never works as it mangles the PSK. What to do?
This tool uses client side javascript - so no information is ever transmitted - and generates a random PSK in your own web browser that rolls every 24 hours. All it requires is for both parties to have their machine clocks approximately correctly (so both machines calculate the same PSK).
Optionally, to make a more variable key, you can enter two encoding keys, and these keys must be exchanged between both parties. For example, you can make the two keys the public IP address of the two VPN terminators. Or you can use serial numbers, MAC addresses, or you could call each other and exchange two colours, favourite sports teams, etc. Note that whatever one party enters as 'Key 1' the other party must enter as 'Key 1', and whatever one party enters as 'Key 2' the other party must also enter as 'Key 2'.
Then the tool will take your two keys, add a unique salt for that 24 hour period, and generate a nasty PSK that no person would ever guess - and that has never been transmitted over any medium, ever.
This page uses Javascript, and alas, your browser does not support it.