---
title: NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod
framework: networkextension
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration
path: networkextension/nevpnikeauthenticationmethod
---

# NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod

Internet Key Exchange (IKE) authentication methods used to authenticate with the IPSec server.

## Declaration

```swift
enum NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod
```

## Topics

### Authentication methods

- [NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod.none](networkextension/nevpnikeauthenticationmethod/none.md)
- [NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod.certificate](networkextension/nevpnikeauthenticationmethod/certificate.md)
- [NEVPNIKEAuthenticationMethod.sharedSecret](networkextension/nevpnikeauthenticationmethod/sharedsecret.md)

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](networkextension/nevpnikeauthenticationmethod/init(rawvalue:).md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)

## See Also

### Accessing IPSec properties

- [authenticationMethod](networkextension/nevpnprotocolipsec/authenticationmethod.md)
- [useExtendedAuthentication](networkextension/nevpnprotocolipsec/useextendedauthentication.md)
- [sharedSecretReference](networkextension/nevpnprotocolipsec/sharedsecretreference.md)
- [localIdentifier](networkextension/nevpnprotocolipsec/localidentifier.md)
- [remoteIdentifier](networkextension/nevpnprotocolipsec/remoteidentifier.md)