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March 3, 2025

Technical Tip: Unable to configure enhancing security with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC Crystal-Kyber) for IPsec key exchange

  • March 3, 2025
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Description This article describes how to enable the option for PQC Crystal-Kyber in IPsec tunnel.
Scope FortiGate v7.6.1.
Solution
  1. Follow the steps to configure PQC Crystal-Kyber from: Enhancing security with Post-Quantum Cryptography for IPsec key exchange 7.6.1. But, it is not possible to find the PQC Crystal-Kyber option when configuring under IPsec Phase1:

 

config vpn ipsec phase1-interface

(phase1-interface) # edit TEST

(TEST) # set addke1
command parse error before 'addke1'

(TEST) # set addke2

command parse error before 'addke2'
Command fail. Return code -61

 

  1. It has to enable IKE version 2 under IPsec Phase 1 to configure PQC Crystal-Kyber. Please take note that IKE v1 does not support PQC Crystal-Kyber.

 

config vpn ipsec phase1-interface
(phase1-interface) # edit TEST
# set ike-version 2
Lotus-kvm56 (TEST) # end

# config vpn ipsec phase1-interface
Lotus-kvm56 (phase1-interface) # edit TEST

Lotus-kvm56 (TEST) # set addke1
0 NONE.
35 ML-KEM-512.
36 ML-KEM-768.
37 ML-KEM-1024.
1080 KYBER512.
1081 KYBER768.
1082 KYBER1024.
1083 FRODO L1.
1084 FRODO L3.
1085 FRODO L5.
1089 BIKE L1.
1090 BIKE L3.
1091 BIKE L5.
1092 HQC128.
1093 HQC192.
1094 HQC256.

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