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BillS

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I am really new at setting up OpenVPN and I am having difficulty understanding the naming of the keys. I have been able to setup several Raspberry Pi’s using OpenVPN and then using the OpenVPN gui to import the ovpn files. Using the gui to connect all works as it should. Now I want to connect my router that has a built in OpenVPN client (Asus RT-AC68P/U B1 running Tomato Shibby) to connect to one of the Pi’s but I am confused about the names used to identify the keys. I can open the ovpn file using Notepad++ and see the keys but they don’t seem to match the heading in my routers OpenVPN keys.
Here are the labels for each:

OVPN File
<ca>
BEGIN CERTIFICATE
</ca>
<cert>
BEGIN CERTIFICATE
</cert>
<key>
BEGIN ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY
</key>
<tls-crypt>
BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1
===========================
Router OpenVPN Keys Needed
-Static Key
-Certificate Authority
-Client Certificate
-Client Key
Can someone tell me which ones match which?

Is there any way someone could map it like this using what I listed in the above information replacing the xxxxx's with the names used by my router?

OVPN File:
<ca> = xxxxxxxx

</ca>
<cert> = xxxxxxx

</cert>
<key> = xxxxxxxx

</key>
<tls-crypt> = xxxxxxx
 

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