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h1. PSK Secret

A preshared secret is most conveniently represented as a sequence of characters, which is delimited by double-quote characters ("). The sequence cannot contain a newline or double-quote characters.
Alternatively, preshared secrets can be represented as hexadecimal or Base64 encoded binary values. A character double-quote. Strictly speaking, the secret is actually the sequence beginning with 0x of bytes that is interpreted as used in the file to represent the sequence hexadecimal digits. Similarly, a character sequence beginning with 0s is interpreted as Base64 encoded binary data. of characters (excluding the delimiters).

h2. Notation

[ _<id selectors>_ ] : PSK _<secret>_

h2. Examples

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@moon.strongswan.org @sun.strongswan.org : PSK 0sv+NkxY9LLZvwj4qCC2o/gGrWDF2d21jL

@moon.strongswan.org %any : PSK 0sFpZAZqEN6Ti9sqt4ZP5EWcqx

@sun.strongswan.org : PSK "This is a strong password"

carol@strongswan.org : PSK "0sFpZAZqEN6Ti9sqt4ZP5EWcqx"

: PSK 0sv+NkxY9LLZvwj4qCC2o/gGrWDF2d21jL
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