Cisco Asa Generate Crypto Key

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Cisco Asa Generate Crypto Key

Problem

I’ve lost count of the number of times this has happened to me! Most of my colleagues prefer to use the ASDM for remote management, but if (like me) you work at command line, then sometimes people <ahem> forget to generate the RSA keypair when deploying a firewall. Then even if SSH access and AAA is setup correctly, you still can’t get in via SSH. Instead you see the following;

RoyalTS and RoyalTSX: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host.

Generate CSR via Cisco ASA CLI Commands 1. Before generating a CSR request, you must create a private key (config)# crypto key generate rsa label itadminguide.key modulus 2048 INFO: The name for the keys. Show crypto key mypubkey rsa: Shows information about the SSL certificate If you’d like to learn more about on how to configure SSH on a Cisco router I recommend you read through this documentation: Configuring Secure Shell on Routers and Switches Running Cisco IOS. Oct 02, 2015 SSH Config and crypto key generate RSA command. Use this command to generate RSA key pairs for your Cisco device (such as a router). Keys are generated in pairs–one public RSA key and one private RSA key. If your router already has RSA keys when you issue this command, you will be warned and prompted to replace the existing keys with new keys.

PuTTY: PuTTY Fatal Error: Server unexpectedly closed network connection.

SecureCRT: Connection closed.

OSX/Linux: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host.

Now at command line you can fix this with a ‘Crypto Key Generate RSA Modulus 2048‘ command, but you can’t get to command line only ASDM.

Solution

On older versions of the ASDM you could generate the keypair in the Identification Certificates section (well you still can but only if you are also generating a certificate request file). So, as we are command line warriors, lets use the ASDM’s command line!

Tools > Command Line Interface > Multiple Line

Send > Wait a couple of minutes and try again.

REMEMBER: I’m assuming you have SSH setup correctly if not, see the following article;

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Update:Securing Cisco ASA SSH server

Enabling SSH has been covered here but it only talked about routers and switches. How about Cisco ASA? Today, I had to learn how to do it using CLI and not ASDM since I couldn’t find where the equivalent of aaa authentication ssh console LOCAL and crypto key gen rsa mod 4096 in the ASDM. Since I am really new to Cisco ASA, I am not well-versed in issuing commands under CLI. If you are in a similar situation, I suggest to buy this book. Having said that, I’ve always used ASDM when checking out rules, NATs, and etc but I can understand some of the CLI config. Without further ado, here’s how to enable SSH on a Cisco ASA.

As you know, it is a good idea to enable SSH and disable Telnet. Since ASA does not enable SSH and/or Telnet by default, you have less to worry about. But if you have to choose between them, of course pick the SSH.

Cisco Asa Generate Crypto Key In Windows 10

I hope this has been helpful and thank you for reading!

Open the terminal application (command line) by clicking on the corresponding icon:2. Type the following command ssh-keygen -o -b 4096 and press Enter to generate the new key:The -o option was added in 2014; if this command fails for you, simply remove the -o flag.3. Leave it at the default setting if you are creating your first key (which will be saved as idrsa). Google cloud ssh key generation for your instance. Enter the file path in which to safe the key. Enter same passphrase again:6.

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