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.TP
.BR aikgen.load " []"
Plugins to load in ipsec aikgen tool.

.TP
.BR attest.database " []"
File measurement information database URI. If it contains a password, make sure
to adjust the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR attest.load " []"
Plugins to load in ipsec attest tool.

.TP
.B charon
.br
Options for the charon IKE daemon.

.RB "" "Note" ":"
Many of the options in this section also apply to
.RB "" "charon\-cmd" ""
and
other
.RB "" "charon" ""
derivatives.  Just use their respective name (e.g.
.RB "" "charon\-cmd" ""
instead of
.RB "" "charon" ")."
For many options defaults can be defined
in the
.RB "" "libstrongswan" ""
section.

.TP
.BR charon.accept_unencrypted_mainmode_messages " [no]"
Accept unencrypted ID and HASH payloads in IKEv1 Main Mode.

Some implementations send the third Main Mode message unencrypted, probably to
find the PSKs for the specified ID for authentication. This is very similar to
Aggressive Mode, and has the same security implications: A passive attacker can
sniff the negotiated Identity, and start brute forcing the PSK using the HASH
payload.

It is recommended to keep this option to no, unless you know exactly what the
implications are and require compatibility to such devices (for example, some
SonicWall boxes).

.TP
.BR charon.block_threshold " [5]"
Maximum number of half\-open IKE_SAs for a single peer IP.

.TP
.BR charon.cert_cache " [yes]"
Whether relations in validated certificate chains should be cached in memory.

.TP
.BR charon.cisco_unity " [no]"
Send Cisco Unity vendor ID payload (IKEv1 only).

.TP
.BR charon.close_ike_on_child_failure " [no]"
Close the IKE_SA if setup of the CHILD_SA along with IKE_AUTH failed.

.TP
.BR charon.cookie_threshold " [10]"
Number of half\-open IKE_SAs that activate the cookie mechanism.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.bench " [no]"
Benchmark crypto algorithms and order them by efficiency.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.bench_size " [1024]"
Buffer size used for crypto benchmark.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.bench_time " [50]"
Number of iterations to test each algorithm.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.on_add " [no]"
Test crypto algorithms during registration (requires test vectors provided by
the
.RI "" "test\-vectors" ""
plugin).

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.on_create " [no]"
Test crypto algorithms on each crypto primitive instantiation.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.required " [no]"
Strictly require at least one test vector to enable an algorithm.

.TP
.BR charon.crypto_test.rng_true " [no]"
Whether to test RNG with TRUE quality; requires a lot of entropy.

.TP
.BR charon.dh_exponent_ansi_x9_42 " [yes]"
Use ANSI X9.42 DH exponent size or optimum size matched to cryptographic
strength.

.TP
.BR charon.dns1 " []"
DNS server assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).

.TP
.BR charon.dns2 " []"
DNS server assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).

.TP
.BR charon.dos_protection " [yes]"
Enable Denial of Service protection using cookies and aggressiveness checks.

.TP
.BR charon.ecp_x_coordinate_only " [yes]"
Compliance with the errata for RFC 4753.

.TP
.B charon.filelog
.br
Section to define file loggers, see LOGGER CONFIGURATION in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.B charon.filelog.<filename>
.br
<filename> is the full path to the log file.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.<subsystem> " [<default>]"
Loglevel for a specific subsystem.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.append " [yes]"
If this option is enabled log entries are appended to the existing file.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.default " [1]"
Specifies the default loglevel to be used for subsystems for which no specific
loglevel is defined.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.flush_line " [no]"
Enabling this option disables block buffering and enables line buffering.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.ike_name " [no]"
Prefix each log entry with the connection name and a unique numerical identifier
for each IKE_SA.

.TP
.BR charon.filelog.<filename>.time_format " []"
Prefix each log entry with a timestamp. The option accepts a format string as
passed to
.RB "" "strftime" "(3)."


.TP
.BR charon.flush_auth_cfg " [no]"
If enabled objects used during authentication (certificates, identities etc.)
are released to free memory once an IKE_SA is established. Enabling this might
conflict with plugins that later need access to e.g. the used certificates.

.TP
.BR charon.fragment_size " [0]"
Maximum size (complete IP datagram size in bytes) of a sent IKE fragment when
using proprietary IKEv1 or standardized IKEv2 fragmentation (0 for address
family specific        default values). If specified this limit is used for both
IPv4 and IPv6.

.TP
.BR charon.group " []"
Name of the group the daemon changes to after startup.

.TP
.BR charon.half_open_timeout " [30]"
Timeout in seconds for connecting IKE_SAs (also see IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING).

.TP
.BR charon.hash_and_url " [no]"
Enable hash and URL support.

.TP
.BR charon.host_resolver.max_threads " [3]"
Maximum number of concurrent resolver threads (they are terminated if unused).

.TP
.BR charon.host_resolver.min_threads " [0]"
Minimum number of resolver threads to keep around.

.TP
.BR charon.i_dont_care_about_security_and_use_aggressive_mode_psk " [no]"
If enabled responders are allowed to use IKEv1 Aggressive Mode with pre\-shared
keys, which is discouraged due to security concerns (offline attacks on the
openly transmitted hash of the PSK).

.TP
.BR charon.ignore_acquire_ts " [no]"
If this is disabled the traffic selectors from the kernel's acquire events,
which are derived from the triggering packet, are prepended to the traffic
selectors from the configuration for IKEv2 connection. By enabling this, such
specific traffic selectors will be ignored and only the ones in the config will
be sent. This always happens for IKEv1 connections as the protocol only supports
one set of traffic selectors per CHILD_SA.

.TP
.BR charon.ignore_routing_tables " []"
A space\-separated list of routing tables to be excluded from route lookups.

.TP
.BR charon.ikesa_limit " [0]"
Maximum number of IKE_SAs that can be established at the same time before new
connection attempts are blocked.

.TP
.BR charon.ikesa_table_segments " [1]"
Number of exclusively locked segments in the hash table.

.TP
.BR charon.ikesa_table_size " [1]"
Size of the IKE_SA hash table.

.TP
.B charon.imcv
.br
Defaults for options in this section can be configured in the
.RI "" "libimcv" ""
section.

.TP
.BR charon.imcv.assessment_result " [yes]"
Whether IMVs send a standard IETF Assessment Result attribute.

.TP
.BR charon.imcv.database " []"
Global IMV policy database URI. If it contains a password, make sure to adjust
the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.imcv.os_info.name " []"
Manually set the name of the client OS (e.g. Ubuntu).

.TP
.BR charon.imcv.os_info.version " []"
Manually set the version of the client OS (e.g. 12.04 i686).

.TP
.BR charon.imcv.policy_script " [ipsec _imv_policy]"
Script called for each TNC connection to generate IMV policies.

.TP
.BR charon.inactivity_close_ike " [no]"
Whether to close IKE_SA if the only CHILD_SA closed due to inactivity.

.TP
.BR charon.init_limit_half_open " [0]"
Limit new connections based on the current number of half open IKE_SAs, see
IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.init_limit_job_load " [0]"
Limit new connections based on the number of jobs currently queued for
processing (see IKE_SA_INIT DROPPING).

.TP
.BR charon.initiator_only " [no]"
Causes charon daemon to ignore IKE initiation requests.

.TP
.BR charon.install_routes " [yes]"
Install routes into a separate routing table for established IPsec tunnels.

.TP
.BR charon.install_virtual_ip " [yes]"
Install virtual IP addresses.

.TP
.BR charon.install_virtual_ip_on " []"
The name of the interface on which virtual IP addresses should be installed. If
not specified the addresses will be installed on the outbound interface.

.TP
.BR charon.integrity_test " [no]"
Check daemon, libstrongswan and plugin integrity at startup.

.TP
.BR charon.interfaces_ignore " []"
A comma\-separated list of network interfaces that should be ignored, if
.RB "" "interfaces_use" ""
is specified this option has no effect.

.TP
.BR charon.interfaces_use " []"
A comma\-separated list of network interfaces that should be used by charon. All
other interfaces are ignored.

.TP
.BR charon.keep_alive " [20s]"
NAT keep alive interval.

.TP
.BR charon.leak_detective.detailed " [yes]"
Includes source file names and line numbers in leak detective output.

.TP
.BR charon.leak_detective.usage_threshold " [10240]"
Threshold in bytes for leaks to be reported (0 to report all).

.TP
.BR charon.leak_detective.usage_threshold_count " [0]"
Threshold in number of allocations for leaks to be reported (0 to report all).

.TP
.BR charon.load " []"
Plugins to load in the IKE daemon charon.

.TP
.BR charon.load_modular " [no]"
If enabled, the list of plugins to load is determined via the value of the
.RI "" "charon.plugins.<name>.load" ""
options.  In addition to a simple boolean flag that
option may take an integer value indicating the priority of a plugin, which
would influence the order of a plugin in the plugin list (the default is 1). If
two plugins have the same priority their order in the default plugin list is
preserved. Enabled plugins not found in that list are ordered alphabetically
before other plugins with the same priority.

.TP
.BR charon.make_before_break " [no]"
Initiate IKEv2 reauthentication with a make\-before\-break instead of a
break\-before\-make scheme. Make\-before\-break uses overlapping IKE and CHILD_SA
during reauthentication by first recreating all new SAs before deleting the old
ones. This behavior can be beneficial to avoid connectivity gaps during
reauthentication, but requires support for overlapping SAs by the peer.
strongSwan can handle such overlapping SAs since version 5.3.0.

.TP
.BR charon.max_packet " [10000]"
Maximum packet size accepted by charon.

.TP
.BR charon.multiple_authentication " [yes]"
Enable multiple authentication exchanges (RFC 4739).

.TP
.BR charon.nbns1 " []"
WINS servers assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).

.TP
.BR charon.nbns2 " []"
WINS servers assigned to peer via configuration payload (CP).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.android_log.loglevel " [1]"
Loglevel for logging to Android specific logger.

.TP
.B charon.plugins.attr
.br
Section to specify arbitrary attributes that are assigned to a peer via
configuration payload (CP).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.attr.<attr> " []"
.RB "" "<attr>" ""
can be either
.RI "" "address" ","
.RI "" "netmask" ","
.RI "" "dns" ","
.RI "" "nbns" ","
.RI "" "dhcp" ","
.RI "" "subnet" ","
.RI "" "split\-include" ","
.RI "" "split\-exclude" ""
or the numeric identifier of the attribute
type. The assigned value can be an IPv4/IPv6 address, a subnet in CIDR notation
or an arbitrary value depending on the attribute type.  For some attribute types
multiple values may be specified as a comma separated list.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.attr-sql.database " []"
Database URI for attr\-sql plugin used by charon. If it contains a password, make
sure to adjust the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.attr-sql.lease_history " [yes]"
Enable logging of SQL IP pool leases.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.bliss.use_bliss_b " [yes]"
Use the enhanced BLISS\-B key generation and signature algorithm.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.cron " []"
Cron style string specifying CSV export times.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.empty_string " []"
String to use in empty intermediate CA fields.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.fixed_fields " [yes]"
Use a fixed intermediate CA field count.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.force " [yes]"
Force export of all trustchains we have a private key for.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.format " [%d:%m:%Y]"
.RB "" "strftime" "(3)"
format string to export expiration dates as.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.local " []"
.RB "" "strftime" "(3)"
format string for the CSV file name to export local certificates
to.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.remote " []"
.RB "" "strftime" "(3)"
format string for the CSV file name to export remote
certificates to.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.certexpire.csv.separator " [,]"
CSV field separator.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.coupling.file " []"
File to store coupling list to.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.coupling.hash " [sha1]"
Hashing algorithm to fingerprint coupled certificates.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.coupling.max " [1]"
Maximum number of coupling entries to create.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.dhcp.force_server_address " [no]"
Always use the configured server address. This might be helpful if the DHCP
server runs on the same host as strongSwan, and the DHCP daemon does not listen
on the loopback interface.  In that case the server cannot be reached via
unicast (or even 255.255.255.255) as that would be routed via loopback. Setting
this option to yes and configuring the local broadcast address (e.g.
192.168.0.255) as server address might work.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.dhcp.identity_lease " [no]"
Derive user\-defined MAC address from hash of IKE identity.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.dhcp.interface " []"
Interface name the plugin uses for address allocation. The default is to bind to
any (0.0.0.0) and let the system decide which way to route the packets to the
DHCP server.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.dhcp.server " [255.255.255.255]"
DHCP server unicast or broadcast IP address.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.dnscert.enable " [no]"
Enable fetching of CERT RRs via DNS.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.duplicheck.enable " [yes]"
Enable duplicheck plugin (if loaded).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.duplicheck.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.dck]"
Socket provided by the duplicheck plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-aka.request_identity " [yes]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-aka-3ggp2.seq_check " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.prefer_user " [no]"
If enabled the EAP methods proposed in an EAP\-Nak message sent by the peer are
preferred over the methods registered locally.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-dynamic.preferred " []"
The preferred EAP method(s) to be used.  If it is not given the first registered
method will be used initially.  If a comma separated list is given the methods
are tried in the given order before trying the rest of the registered methods.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-gtc.backend " [pam]"
XAuth backend to be used for credential verification.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.fragment_size " [1024]"
Maximum size of an EAP\-PEAP packet.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.include_length " [no]"
Include length in non\-fragmented EAP\-PEAP packets.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.max_message_count " [32]"
Maximum number of processed EAP\-PEAP packets (0 = no limit).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.phase2_method " [mschapv2]"
Phase2 EAP client authentication method.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.phase2_piggyback " [no]"
Phase2 EAP Identity request piggybacked by server onto TLS Finished message.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.phase2_tnc " [no]"
Start phase2 EAP TNC protocol after successful client authentication.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-peap.request_peer_auth " [no]"
Request peer authentication based on a client certificate.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.accounting " [no]"
Send RADIUS accounting information to RADIUS servers.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.accounting_close_on_timeout " [yes]"
Close the IKE_SA if there is a timeout during interim RADIUS accounting updates.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.accounting_interval " [0]"
Interval for interim RADIUS accounting updates, if not specified by the RADIUS
server in the Access\-Accept message.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.accounting_requires_vip " [no]"
If enabled, accounting is disabled unless an IKE_SA has at least one virtual IP.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.class_group " [no]"
Use the
.RI "" "class" ""
attribute sent in the RADIUS\-Accept message as group membership
information that is compared to the groups specified in the
.RB "" "rightgroups" ""
option in
.RB "" "ipsec.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.close_all_on_timeout " [no]"
Closes all IKE_SAs if communication with the RADIUS server times out. If it is
not set only the current IKE_SA is closed.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.dae.enable " [no]"
Enables support for the Dynamic Authorization Extension (RFC 5176).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.dae.listen " [0.0.0.0]"
Address to listen for DAE messages from the RADIUS server.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.dae.port " [3799]"
Port to listen for DAE requests.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.dae.secret " []"
Shared secret used to verify/sign DAE messages. If set, make sure to adjust the
permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.eap_start " [no]"
Send EAP\-Start instead of EAP\-Identity to start RADIUS conversation.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.filter_id " [no]"
If the RADIUS
.RI "" "tunnel_type" ""
attribute with value
.RB "" "ESP" ""
is received, use the
.RI "" "filter_id" ""
attribute sent in the RADIUS\-Accept message as group membership
information that is compared to the groups specified in the
.RB "" "rightgroups" ""
option in
.RB "" "ipsec.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.forward.ike_to_radius " []"
RADIUS attributes to be forwarded from IKEv2 to RADIUS (can be defined by name
or attribute number, a colon can be used to specify vendor\-specific attributes,
e.g. Reply\-Message, or 11, or 36906:12).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.forward.radius_to_ike " []"
Same as
.RI "" "charon.plugins.eap\-radius.forward.ike_to_radius" ""
but from RADIUS to
IKEv2, a strongSwan specific private notify (40969) is used to transmit the
attributes.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.id_prefix " []"
Prefix to EAP\-Identity, some AAA servers use a IMSI prefix to select the EAP
method.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.nas_identifier " [strongSwan]"
NAS\-Identifier to include in RADIUS messages.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.port " [1812]"
Port of RADIUS server (authentication).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.secret " []"
Shared secret between RADIUS and NAS. If set, make sure to adjust the
permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.server " []"
IP/Hostname of RADIUS server.

.TP
.B charon.plugins.eap-radius.servers
.br
Section to specify multiple RADIUS servers. The
.RB "" "nas_identifier" ","
.RB "" "secret" ","
.RB "" "sockets" ""
and
.RB "" "port" ""
(or
.RB "" "auth_port" ")"
options can be specified for each
server. A server's IP/Hostname can be configured using the
.RB "" "address" ""
option.
The
.RB "" "acct_port" ""
[1813] option can be used to specify the port used for RADIUS
accounting. For each RADIUS server a priority can be specified using the
.RB "" "preference" ""
[0] option.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-radius.sockets " [1]"
Number of sockets (ports) to use, increase for high load.

.TP
.B charon.plugins.eap-radius.xauth
.br
Section to configure multiple XAuth authentication rounds via RADIUS. The
subsections define so called authentication profiles with arbitrary names. In
each profile section one or more XAuth types can be configured, with an assigned
message. For each type a separate XAuth exchange will be initiated and all
replies get concatenated into the User\-Password attribute, which then gets
verified over RADIUS.

Available XAuth types are
.RB "" "password" ","
.RB "" "passcode" ","
.RB "" "nextpin" ","
and
.RB "" "answer" "."
This type is not relevant to strongSwan or the AAA server, but the
client may show a different dialog (along with the configured message).

To use the configured profiles, they have to be configured in the respective
connection in
.RB "" "ipsec.conf" "(5)"
by appending the profile name, separated by a
colon, to the
.RB "" "xauth\-radius" ""
XAauth backend configuration in
.RI "" "rightauth" ""
or
.RI "" "rightauth2" ","
for instance,
.RI "" "rightauth2=xauth\-radius:profile" "."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-sim.request_identity " [yes]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-simaka-sql.database " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-simaka-sql.remove_used " [no]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-tls.fragment_size " [1024]"
Maximum size of an EAP\-TLS packet.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-tls.include_length " [yes]"
Include length in non\-fragmented EAP\-TLS packets.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-tls.max_message_count " [32]"
Maximum number of processed EAP\-TLS packets (0 = no limit).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-tnc.max_message_count " [10]"
Maximum number of processed EAP\-TNC packets (0 = no limit).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-tnc.protocol " [tnccs-2.0]"
IF\-TNCCS protocol version to be used 
.RI "(" "tnccs\-1.1" ","
.RI "" "tnccs\-2.0" ","
.RI "" "tnccs\-dynamic" ")."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.fragment_size " [1024]"
Maximum size of an EAP\-TTLS packet.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.include_length " [yes]"
Include length in non\-fragmented EAP\-TTLS packets.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.max_message_count " [32]"
Maximum number of processed EAP\-TTLS packets (0 = no limit).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.phase2_method " [md5]"
Phase2 EAP client authentication method.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.phase2_piggyback " [no]"
Phase2 EAP Identity request piggybacked by server onto TLS Finished message.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.phase2_tnc " [no]"
Start phase2 EAP TNC protocol after successful client authentication.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.phase2_tnc_method " [pt]"
Phase2 EAP TNC transport protocol 
.RI "(" "pt" ""
as IETF standard or legacy
.RI "" "tnc" ")"


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.eap-ttls.request_peer_auth " [no]"
Request peer authentication based on a client certificate.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.error-notify.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.enfy]"
Socket provided by the error\-notify plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ext-auth.script " []"
Command to pass to the system shell for peer authorization. Authorization is
considered successful if the command executes normally with an exit code of
zero. For all other exit codes IKE_SA authorization is rejected.

The following environment variables get passed to the script:
.RI "" "IKE_UNIQUE_ID" ":"
The IKE_SA numerical unique identifier.
.RI "" "IKE_NAME" ":"
The peer configuration
connection name.
.RI "" "IKE_LOCAL_HOST" ":"
Local IKE IP address.
.RI "" "IKE_REMOTE_HOST" ":"
Remote IKE IP address.
.RI "" "IKE_LOCAL_ID" ":"
Local IKE identity.
.RI "" "IKE_REMOTE_ID" ":"
Remote IKE identity.
.RI "" "IKE_REMOTE_EAP_ID" ":"
Remote EAP or XAuth identity, if used.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.forecast.groups " [224.0.0.1,224.0.0.22,224.0.0.251,224.0.0.252,239.255.255.250]"
Comma separated list of multicast groups to join locally. The local host
receives and forwards packets in the local LAN for joined multicast groups only.
Packets matching the list of multicast groups get forwarded to connected
clients. The default group includes host multicasts, IGMP, mDNS, LLMNR and
SSDP/WS\-Discovery, and is usually a good choice for Windows clients.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.forecast.interface " []"
Name of the local interface to listen for broadcasts messages to forward. If no
interface is configured, the first usable interface is used, which is usually
just fine for single\-homed hosts. If your host has multiple interfaces, set this
option to the local LAN interface you want to forward broadcasts from/to.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.forecast.reinject " []"
Comma separated list of CHILD_SA configuration names for which to perform
multi/broadcast reinjection. For clients connecting over such a configuration,
any multi/broadcast received over the tunnel gets reinjected to all active
tunnels. This makes the broadcasts visible to other peers, and for examples
allows clients to see others shares. If disabled, multi/broadcast messages
received over a tunnel are injected to the local network only, but not to other
IPsec clients.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.gcrypt.quick_random " [no]"
Use faster random numbers in gcrypt; for testing only, produces weak keys!

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.autobalance " [0]"
Interval in seconds to automatically balance handled segments between nodes. Set
to 0 to disable.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.fifo_interface " [yes]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.heartbeat_delay " [1000]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.heartbeat_timeout " [2100]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.local " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.monitor " [yes]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.pools " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.remote " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.resync " [yes]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.secret " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ha.segment_count " [1]"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ipseckey.enable " [no]"
Enable fetching of IPSECKEY RRs via DNS.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-libipsec.allow_peer_ts " [no]"
Allow that the remote traffic selector equals the IKE peer. The route installed
for such traffic (via TUN device) usually prevents further IKE traffic. The
fwmark options for the
.RI "" "kernel\-netlink" ""
and
.RI "" "socket\-default" ""
plugins can be used
to circumvent that problem.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.fwmark " []"
Firewall mark to set on the routing rule that directs traffic to our routing
table. The format is [!]mark[/mask], where the optional exclamation mark inverts
the meaning (i.e. the rule only applies to packets that don't match the mark).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.ignore_retransmit_errors " [no]"
Whether to ignore errors potentially resulting from a retransmission.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.mss " [0]"
MSS to set on installed routes, 0 to disable.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.mtu " [0]"
MTU to set on installed routes, 0 to disable.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.parallel_route " [no]"
Whether to perform concurrent Netlink ROUTE queries on a single socket. While
parallel queries can improve throughput, it has more overhead. On vanilla Linux,
DUMP queries fail with EBUSY and must be retried, further decreasing
performance.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.parallel_xfrm " [no]"
Whether to perform concurrent Netlink XFRM queries on a single socket.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.policy_update " [no]"
Whether to always use XFRM_MSG_UPDPOLICY to install policies.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.port_bypass " [no]"
Whether to use port or socket based IKE XFRM bypass policies. IKE bypass
policies are used to exempt IKE traffic from XFRM processing. The default socket
based policies are directly tied to the IKE UDP sockets, port based policies use
global XFRM bypass policies for the used IKE UDP ports.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.retries " [0]"
Number of Netlink message retransmissions to send on timeout.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.roam_events " [yes]"
Whether to trigger roam events when interfaces, addresses or routes change.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.set_proto_port_transport_sa " [no]"
Whether to set protocol and ports in the selector installed on transport mode
IPsec SAs in the kernel. While doing so enforces policies for inbound traffic,
it also prevents the use of a single IPsec SA by more than one traffic selector.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.timeout " [0]"
Netlink message retransmission timeout, 0 to disable retransmissions.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-netlink.xfrm_acq_expires " [165]"
Lifetime of XFRM acquire state in kernel. The value gets written to
/proc/sys/net/core/xfrm_acq_expires. Indirectly controls the delay of XFRM
acquire messages sent.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-pfkey.events_buffer_size " [0]"
Size of the receive buffer for the event socket (0 for default size). Because
events are received asynchronously installing e.g. lots of policies may require
a larger buffer than the default on certain platforms in order to receive all
messages.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.kernel-pfroute.vip_wait " [1000]"
Time in ms to wait until virtual IP addresses appear/disappear before failing.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.led.activity_led " []"
.TP
.BR charon.plugins.led.blink_time " [50]"
.TP
.B charon.plugins.load-tester
.br
Section to configure the load\-tester plugin, see LOAD TESTS in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)"
for details.

.TP
.B charon.plugins.load-tester.addrs
.br
Section that contains key/value pairs with address pools (in CIDR notation) to
use for a specific network interface e.g. eth0 = 10.10.0.0/16.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.addrs_keep " [no]"
Whether to keep dynamic addresses even after the associated SA got terminated.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.addrs_prefix " [16]"
Network prefix length to use when installing dynamic addresses. If set to \-1 the
full address is used (i.e. 32 or 128).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.ca_dir " []"
Directory to load (intermediate) CA certificates from.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.child_rekey " [600]"
Seconds to start CHILD_SA rekeying after setup.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.crl " []"
URI to a CRL to include as certificate distribution point in generated
certificates.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.delay " [0]"
Delay between initiatons for each thread.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.delete_after_established " [no]"
Delete an IKE_SA as soon as it has been established.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.digest " [sha1]"
Digest algorithm used when issuing certificates.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.dpd_delay " [0]"
DPD delay to use in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.dynamic_port " [0]"
Base port to be used for requests (each client uses a different port).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.eap_password " [default-pwd]"
EAP secret to use in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.enable " [no]"
Enable the load testing plugin.
.RB "" "WARNING" ":"
Never enable this plugin on
productive systems. It provides preconfigured credentials and allows an attacker
to authenticate as any user.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.esp " [aes128-sha1]"
CHILD_SA proposal to use for load tests.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.fake_kernel " [no]"
Fake the kernel interface to allow load\-testing against self.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.ike_rekey " [0]"
Seconds to start IKE_SA rekeying after setup.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.init_limit " [0]"
Global limit of concurrently established SAs during load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator " [0.0.0.0]"
Address to initiate from.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator_auth " [pubkey]"
Authentication method(s) the intiator uses.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator_id " []"
Initiator ID used in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator_match " []"
Initiator ID to match against as responder.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator_tsi " []"
Traffic selector on initiator side, as proposed by initiator.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiator_tsr " []"
Traffic selector on responder side, as proposed by initiator.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.initiators " [0]"
Number of concurrent initiator threads to use in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.issuer_cert " []"
Path to the issuer certificate (if not configured a hard\-coded default value is
used).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.issuer_key " []"
Path to private key that is used to issue certificates (if not configured a
hard\-coded default value is used).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.iterations " [1]"
Number of IKE_SAs to initiate by each initiator in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.mode " [tunnel]"
IPsec mode to use, one of
.RI "" "tunnel" ","
.RI "" "transport" ","
or
.RI "" "beet" "."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.pool " []"
Provide INTERNAL_IPV4_ADDRs from a named pool.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.preshared_key " [<default-psk>]"
Preshared key to use in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.proposal " [aes128-sha1-modp768]"
IKE proposal to use in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.request_virtual_ip " [no]"
Request an INTERNAL_IPV4_ADDR from the server.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.responder " [127.0.0.1]"
Address to initiation connections to.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.responder_auth " [pubkey]"
Authentication method(s) the responder uses.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.responder_id " []"
Responder ID used in load test.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.responder_tsi " [initiator_tsi]"
Traffic selector on initiator side, as narrowed by responder.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.responder_tsr " [initiator_tsr]"
Traffic selector on responder side, as narrowed by responder.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.shutdown_when_complete " [no]"
Shutdown the daemon after all IKE_SAs have been established.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.ldt]"
Socket provided by the load\-tester plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.load-tester.version " [0]"
IKE version to use (0 means use IKEv2 as initiator and accept any version as
responder).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.lookip.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.lkp]"
Socket provided by the lookip plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ntru.max_drbg_requests " [4294967294]"
Number of pseudo\-random bit requests from the DRBG before an automatic reseeding
occurs.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.ntru.parameter_set " [optimum]"
The following parameter sets are available:
.RB "" "x9_98_speed" ","
.RB "" "x9_98_bandwidth" ","
.RB "" "x9_98_balance" ""
and
.RB "" "optimum" ","
the last set not being
part of the X9.98 standard but having the best performance.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.openssl.engine_id " [pkcs11]"
ENGINE ID to use in the OpenSSL plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.openssl.fips_mode " [0]"
Set OpenSSL FIPS mode: disabled(0), enabled(1), Suite B enabled(2).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.load_certs " [yes]"
Whether to load certificates from tokens.

.TP
.B charon.plugins.pkcs11.modules
.br
List of available PKCS#11 modules.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.reload_certs " [no]"
Reload certificates from all tokens if charon receives a SIGHUP.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.use_dh " [no]"
Whether the PKCS#11 modules should be used for DH and ECDH (see
.RI "" "use_ecc" ""
option).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.use_ecc " [no]"
Whether the PKCS#11 modules should be used for ECDH and ECDSA public key
operations. ECDSA private keys can be used regardless of this option.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.use_hasher " [no]"
Whether the PKCS#11 modules should be used to hash data.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.use_pubkey " [no]"
Whether the PKCS#11 modules should be used for public key operations, even for
keys not stored on tokens.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.pkcs11.use_rng " [no]"
Whether the PKCS#11 modules should be used as RNG.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.radattr.dir " []"
Directory where RADIUS attributes are stored in client\-ID specific files.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.radattr.message_id " [-1]"
Attributes are added to all IKE_AUTH messages by default (\-1), or only to the
IKE_AUTH message with the given IKEv2 message ID.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.random.random " [${random_device}]"
File to read random bytes from.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.random.strong_equals_true " [no]"
If set to yes the RNG_STRONG class reads random bytes from the same source as
the RNG_TRUE class.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.random.urandom " [${urandom_device}]"
File to read pseudo random bytes from.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.resolve.file " [/etc/resolv.conf]"
File where to add DNS server entries.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.resolve.resolvconf.iface_prefix " [lo.inet.ipsec.]"
Prefix used for interface names sent to
.RB "" "resolvconf" "(8)."
The nameserver
address is appended to this prefix to make it unique.  The result has to be a
valid interface name according to the rules defined by resolvconf.  Also, it
should have a high priority according to the order defined in
.RB "" "interface\-order" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.socket-default.fwmark " []"
Firewall mark to set on outbound packets.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.socket-default.set_source " [yes]"
Set source address on outbound packets, if possible.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.socket-default.use_ipv4 " [yes]"
Listen on IPv4, if possible.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.socket-default.use_ipv6 " [yes]"
Listen on IPv6, if possible.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.sql.database " []"
Database URI for charon's SQL plugin. If it contains a password, make sure to
adjust the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.sql.loglevel " [-1]"
Loglevel for logging to SQL database.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.ignore_missing_ca_basic_constraint " [no]"
Treat certificates in ipsec.d/cacerts and ipsec.conf ca sections as CA
certificates even if they don't contain a CA basic constraint.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.max_concurrent " [4]"
Maximum number of stroke messages handled concurrently.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.prevent_loglevel_changes " [no]"
If enabled log level changes via stroke socket are not allowed.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.secrets_file " [${sysconfdir}/ipsec.secrets]"
Location of the ipsec.secrets file

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.ctl]"
Socket provided by the stroke plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.stroke.timeout " [0]"
Timeout in ms for any stroke command. Use 0 to disable the timeout.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.systime-fix.interval " [0]"
Interval in seconds to check system time for validity. 0 disables the check.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.systime-fix.reauth " [no]"
Whether to use reauth or delete if an invalid cert lifetime is detected.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.systime-fix.threshold " []"
Threshold date where system time is considered valid. Disabled if not specified.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.systime-fix.threshold_format " [%Y]"
.RB "" "strptime" "(3)"
format used to parse threshold option.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.client_cert " []"
Path to X.509 certificate file of IF\-MAP client.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.client_key " []"
Path to private key file of IF\-MAP client.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.device_name " []"
Unique name of strongSwan server as a PEP and/or PDP device.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.renew_session_interval " [150]"
Interval in seconds between periodic IF\-MAP RenewSession requests.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.server_cert " []"
Path to X.509 certificate file of IF\-MAP server.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.server_uri " [https://localhost:8444/imap]"
URI of the form [https://]servername[:port][/path].

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-ifmap.username_password " []"
Credentials of IF\-MAP client of the form username:password. If set, make sure to
adjust the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-imc.dlclose " [yes]"
Unload IMC after use.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-imc.preferred_language " [en]"
Preferred language for TNC recommendations.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-imv.dlclose " [yes]"
Unload IMV after use.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-imv.recommendation_policy " [default]"
TNC recommendation policy, one of
.RI "" "default" ","
.RI "" "any" ","
or
.RI "" "all" "."


.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.pt_tls.enable " [yes]"
Enable PT\-TLS protocol on the strongSwan PDP.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.pt_tls.port " [271]"
PT\-TLS server port the strongSwan PDP is listening on.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.radius.enable " [yes]"
Enable RADIUS protocol on the strongSwan PDP.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.radius.method " [ttls]"
EAP tunnel method to be used.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.radius.port " [1812]"
RADIUS server port the strongSwan PDP is listening on.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.radius.secret " []"
Shared RADIUS secret between strongSwan PDP and NAS. If set, make sure to adjust
the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.server " []"
Name of the strongSwan PDP as contained in the AAA certificate.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnc-pdp.timeout " []"
Timeout in seconds before closing incomplete connections.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-11.max_message_size " [45000]"
Maximum size of a PA\-TNC message (XML & Base64 encoding).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-20.max_batch_size " [65522]"
Maximum size of a PB\-TNC batch (upper limit via PT\-EAP = 65529).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-20.max_message_size " [65490]"
Maximum size of a PA\-TNC message (upper limit via PT\-EAP = 65497).

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-20.mutual " [no]"
Enable PB\-TNC mutual protocol.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-20.tests.pb_tnc_noskip " [no]"
Send an unsupported PB\-TNC message type with the NOSKIP flag set.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.tnccs-20.tests.pb_tnc_version " [2]"
Send a PB\-TNC batch with a modified PB\-TNC version.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.unbound.dlv_anchors " []"
File to read trusted keys for DLV (DNSSEC Lookaside Validation) from. It uses
the same format as
.RI "" "trust_anchors" "."
Only one DLV can be configured, which is
then used as a root trusted DLV, this means that it is a lookaside for the root.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.unbound.resolv_conf " [/etc/resolv.conf]"
File to read DNS resolver configuration from.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.unbound.trust_anchors " [/etc/ipsec.d/dnssec.keys]"
File to read DNSSEC trust anchors from (usually root zone KSK). The format of
the file is the standard DNS Zone file format, anchors can be stored as DS or
DNSKEY entries in the file.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.updown.dns_handler " [no]"
Whether the updown script should handle DNS servers assigned via IKEv1 Mode
Config or IKEv2 Config Payloads (if enabled they can't be handled by other
plugins, like resolve)

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.vici.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.vici]"
Socket the vici plugin serves clients.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.whitelist.enable " [yes]"
Enable loaded whitelist plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.whitelist.socket " [unix://${piddir}/charon.wlst]"
Socket provided by the whitelist plugin.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.xauth-eap.backend " [radius]"
EAP plugin to be used as backend for XAuth credential verification.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.xauth-pam.pam_service " [login]"
PAM service to be used for authentication.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.xauth-pam.session " [no]"
Open/close a PAM session for each active IKE_SA.

.TP
.BR charon.plugins.xauth-pam.trim_email " [yes]"
If an email address is received as an XAuth username, trim it to just the
username part.

.TP
.BR charon.port " [500]"
UDP port used locally. If set to 0 a random port will be allocated.

.TP
.BR charon.port_nat_t " [4500]"
UDP port used locally in case of NAT\-T. If set to 0 a random port will be
allocated.  Has to be different from
.RB "" "charon.port" ","
otherwise a random port
will be allocated.

.TP
.BR charon.prefer_temporary_addrs " [no]"
By default public IPv6 addresses are preferred over temporary ones (RFC 4941),
to make connections more stable. Enable this option to reverse this.

.TP
.BR charon.process_route " [yes]"
Process RTM_NEWROUTE and RTM_DELROUTE events.

.TP
.B charon.processor.priority_threads
.br
Section to configure the number of reserved threads per priority class see JOB
PRIORITY MANAGEMENT in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.receive_delay " [0]"
Delay in ms for receiving packets, to simulate larger RTT.

.TP
.BR charon.receive_delay_request " [yes]"
Delay request messages.

.TP
.BR charon.receive_delay_response " [yes]"
Delay response messages.

.TP
.BR charon.receive_delay_type " [0]"
Specific IKEv2 message type to delay, 0 for any.

.TP
.BR charon.replay_window " [32]"
Size of the AH/ESP replay window, in packets.

.TP
.BR charon.retransmit_base " [1.8]"
Base to use for calculating exponential back off, see IKEv2 RETRANSMISSION in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.retransmit_timeout " [4.0]"
Timeout in seconds before sending first retransmit.

.TP
.BR charon.retransmit_tries " [5]"
Number of times to retransmit a packet before giving up.

.TP
.BR charon.retry_initiate_interval " [0]"
Interval to use when retrying to initiate an IKE_SA (e.g. if DNS resolution
failed), 0 to disable retries.

.TP
.BR charon.reuse_ikesa " [yes]"
Initiate CHILD_SA within existing IKE_SAs.

.TP
.BR charon.routing_table " []"
Numerical routing table to install routes to.

.TP
.BR charon.routing_table_prio " []"
Priority of the routing table.

.TP
.BR charon.send_delay " [0]"
Delay in ms for sending packets, to simulate larger RTT.

.TP
.BR charon.send_delay_request " [yes]"
Delay request messages.

.TP
.BR charon.send_delay_response " [yes]"
Delay response messages.

.TP
.BR charon.send_delay_type " [0]"
Specific IKEv2 message type to delay, 0 for any.

.TP
.BR charon.send_vendor_id " [no]"
Send strongSwan vendor ID payload

.TP
.BR charon.signature_authentication " [yes]"
Whether to enable Signature Authentication as per RFC 7427.

.TP
.BR charon.signature_authentication_constraints " [yes]"
If enabled, signature schemes configured in
.RI "" "rightauth" ","
in addition to getting
used as constraints against signature schemes employed in the certificate chain,
are also used as constraints against the signature scheme used by peers during
IKEv2.

.TP
.B charon.start-scripts
.br
Section containing a list of scripts (name = path) that are executed when the
daemon is started.

.TP
.B charon.stop-scripts
.br
Section containing a list of scripts (name = path) that are executed when the
daemon is terminated.

.TP
.B charon.syslog
.br
Section to define syslog loggers, see LOGGER CONFIGURATION in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.B charon.syslog.<facility>
.br
<facility> is one of the supported syslog facilities, see LOGGER CONFIGURATION
in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon.syslog.<facility>.<subsystem> " [<default>]"
Loglevel for a specific subsystem.

.TP
.BR charon.syslog.<facility>.default " [1]"
Specifies the default loglevel to be used for subsystems for which no specific
loglevel is defined.

.TP
.BR charon.syslog.<facility>.ike_name " [no]"
Prefix each log entry with the connection name and a unique numerical identifier
for each IKE_SA.

.TP
.BR charon.syslog.identifier " []"
Global identifier used for an
.RB "" "openlog" "(3)"
call, prepended to each log message
by syslog.  If not configured,
.RB "" "openlog" "(3)"
is not called, so the value will
depend on system defaults (often the program name).

.TP
.BR charon.threads " [16]"
Number of worker threads in charon. Several of these are reserved for long
running tasks in internal modules and plugins. Therefore, make sure you don't
set this value too low. The number of idle worker threads listed in
.RI "" "ipsec statusall" ""
might be used as indicator on the number of reserved threads.

.TP
.BR charon.tls.cipher " []"
List of TLS encryption ciphers.

.TP
.BR charon.tls.key_exchange " []"
List of TLS key exchange methods.

.TP
.BR charon.tls.mac " []"
List of TLS MAC algorithms.

.TP
.BR charon.tls.suites " []"
List of TLS cipher suites.

.TP
.BR charon.tnc.tnc_config " [/etc/tnc_config]"
TNC IMC/IMV configuration file.

.TP
.BR charon.user " []"
Name of the user the daemon changes to after startup.

.TP
.BR charon.x509.enforce_critical " [yes]"
Discard certificates with unsupported or unknown critical extensions.

.TP
.B charon-systemd.journal
.br
Section to configure native systemd journal logger, very similar to the syslog
logger as described in LOGGER CONFIGURATION in
.RB "" "strongswan.conf" "(5)."


.TP
.BR charon-systemd.journal.<subsystem> " [<default>]"
Loglevel for a specific subsystem.

.TP
.BR charon-systemd.journal.default " [1]"
Specifies the default loglevel to be used for subsystems for which no specific
loglevel is defined.

.TP
.BR libimcv.debug_level " [1]"
Debug level for a stand\-alone
.RI "" "libimcv" ""
library.

.TP
.BR libimcv.load " [random nonce gmp pubkey x509]"
Plugins to load in IMC/IMVs with stand\-alone
.RI "" "libimcv" ""
library.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.aik_blob " []"
AIK encrypted private key blob file.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.aik_cert " []"
AIK certificate file.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.aik_pubkey " []"
AIK public key file.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.mandatory_dh_groups " [yes]"
Enforce mandatory Diffie\-Hellman groups.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.nonce_len " [20]"
DH nonce length.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr17_after " []"
PCR17 value after measurement.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr17_before " []"
PCR17 value before measurement.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr17_meas " []"
Dummy measurement value extended into PCR17 if the TBOOT log is not available.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr18_after " []"
PCR18 value after measurement.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr18_before " []"
PCR18 value before measurement.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr18_meas " []"
Dummy measurement value extended into PCR17 if the TBOOT log is not available.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.pcr_info " [no]"
Whether to send pcr_before and pcr_after info.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-attestation.use_quote2 " [yes]"
Use Quote2 AIK signature instead of Quote signature.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-os.device_cert " []"
Manually set the path to the client device certificate (e.g.
/etc/pts/aikCert.der)

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-os.device_id " []"
Manually set the client device ID in hexadecimal format (e.g.
1083f03988c9762703b1c1080c2e46f72b99cc31)

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-os.device_pubkey " []"
Manually set the path to the client device public key (e.g. /etc/pts/aikPub.der)

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-os.push_info " [yes]"
Send operating system info without being prompted.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-scanner.push_info " [yes]"
Send open listening ports without being prompted.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-swid.swid_directory " [${prefix}/share]"
Directory where SWID tags are located.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-swid.swid_full " [FALSE]"
Include file information in the XML\-encoded SWID tags.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-swid.swid_generator " [/usr/local/bin/swid_generator]"
SWID generator command to be executed.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-swid.swid_pretty " [FALSE]"
Generate XML\-encoded SWID tags with pretty indentation.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-test.additional_ids " [0]"
Number of additional IMC IDs.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-test.command " [none]"
Command to be sent to the Test IMV.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-test.dummy_size " [0]"
Size of dummy attribute to be sent to the Test IMV (0 = disabled).

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-test.retry " [no]"
Do a handshake retry.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imc-test.retry_command " []"
Command to be sent to the Test IMV in the handshake retry.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-attestation.cadir " []"
Path to directory with AIK cacerts.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-attestation.dh_group " [ecp256]"
Preferred Diffie\-Hellman group.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-attestation.hash_algorithm " [sha256]"
Preferred measurement hash algorithm.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-attestation.mandatory_dh_groups " [yes]"
Enforce mandatory Diffie\-Hellman groups.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-attestation.min_nonce_len " [0]"
DH minimum nonce length.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-os.remediation_uri " []"
URI pointing to operating system remediation instructions.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-scanner.remediation_uri " []"
URI pointing to scanner remediation instructions.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-swid.rest_api_timeout " [120]"
Timeout of SWID REST API HTTP POST transaction.

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.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-swid.rest_api_uri " []"
HTTP URI of the SWID REST API.

.TP
.BR libimcv.plugins.imv-test.rounds " [0]"
Number of IMC\-IMV retry rounds.

.TP
.BR libimcv.stderr_quiet " [no]"
Disable output to stderr with a stand\-alone
.RI "" "libimcv" ""
library.

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.BR manager.database " []"
Credential database URI for manager. If it contains a password, make sure to
adjust the permissions of the config file accordingly.

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.BR manager.debug " [no]"
Enable debugging in manager.

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.BR manager.load " []"
Plugins to load in manager.

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.BR manager.socket " []"
FastCGI socket of manager, to run it statically.

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.BR manager.threads " [10]"
Threads to use for request handling.

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.BR manager.timeout " [15m]"
Session timeout for manager.

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.BR medsrv.database " []"
Mediation server database URI. If it contains a password, make sure to adjust
the permissions of the config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR medsrv.debug " [no]"
Debugging in mediation server web application.

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.BR medsrv.dpd " [5m]"
DPD timeout to use in mediation server plugin.

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.BR medsrv.load " []"
Plugins to load in mediation server plugin.

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.BR medsrv.password_length " [6]"
Minimum password length required for mediation server user accounts.

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.BR medsrv.rekey " [20m]"
Rekeying time on mediation connections in mediation server plugin.

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.BR medsrv.socket " []"
Run Mediation server web application statically on socket.

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.BR medsrv.threads " [5]"
Number of thread for mediation service web application.

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.BR medsrv.timeout " [15m]"
Session timeout for mediation service.

.TP
.BR pacman.database " []"
Database URI for the database that stores the package information. If it
contains a password, make sure to adjust the permissions of the config file
accordingly.

.TP
.BR pacman.load " []"
Plugins to load in package manager.

.TP
.BR pki.load " []"
Plugins to load in ipsec pki tool.

.TP
.BR pool.database " []"
Database URI for the database that stores IP pools and configuration attributes.
If it contains a password, make        sure to adjust the permissions of the
config file accordingly.

.TP
.BR pool.load " []"
Plugins to load in ipsec pool tool.

.TP
.BR scepclient.load " []"
Plugins to load in ipsec scepclient tool.

.TP
.BR starter.config_file " [${sysconfdir}/ipsec.conf]"
Location of the ipsec.conf file

.TP
.BR starter.load " []"
Plugins to load in starter.

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.BR starter.load_warning " [yes]"
Disable charon plugin load option warning.

.TP
.BR swanctl.load " []"
Plugins to load in swanctl.